Staff, Software Engineer - Merchandising Transformation

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

12h • $110,000 - $220,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Join Walmart as a Staff Software Engineer on the Decision Intelligence & AI Solutions team within Merchandising Transformation. Design and develop scalable AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation solutions for complex merchandising challenges. Build applications, APIs, intelligent workflows, and integrations that improve decision-making, optimize merchandising strategies, and accelerate execution. Collaborate with merchandising, product, data science, technology, and enterprise teams to turn business needs into practical technical solutions using modern software engineering practices, cloud technologies, AI/ML, and agentic AI frameworks, while ensuring reliability, maintainability, and measurable business impact.

The Decision Intelligence & AI Solutions team develops scalable AI, advanced analytics, decision intelligence, and automation capabilities for merchandising. The team identifies business opportunities and creates intelligent solutions that enhance decision-making, optimize strategies, streamline operations, and turn insights into actionable recommendations across Walmart’s merchandising ecosystem.

The role includes designing and delivering AI-driven applications, agentic AI solutions, and intelligent automation aligned with business priorities and roadmap milestones. It also involves applying cloud-native architecture principles; leading development through coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance; reviewing solution designs; and building agentic workflows integrating LLMs, AI/ML models, APIs, orchestration frameworks, and human-in-the-loop mechanisms. The engineer will work with stakeholders to translate complex business challenges into technical requirements and measurable outcomes.

The annual salary range is $110,000 to $220,000, with additional annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Certain positions may also include stock compensation. Walmart describes benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage; 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance; paid time off and various types of leave; disability coverage; company discounts; adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement; and the Live Better U education benefit program. Eligibility and benefits may depend on job classification and length of employment and are subject to plan terms.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in agentic AI, generative AI, and intelligent automation, including LLM integration, agent orchestration, tool use, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Experience designing and developing scalable, production-grade applications using cloud-native technologies, APIs, microservices, and workflow automation.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML frameworks, LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, agent evaluation, and guardrails.
• Experience with software design patterns, API integrations, and rapid prototyping.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, testing, deployment, monitoring, and observability.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 4 years of experience in software engineering or a related area; or 6 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 2 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or Statistics.
• Background creating inclusive digital experiences, including knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable AI-driven applications, agentic AI solutions, and intelligent automation capabilities aligned with business priorities and roadmap milestones.
• Apply cloud-native architecture principles to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications and automated workflows.
• Lead software development activities, including coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of production-grade solutions.
• Conduct solution design reviews to validate technical feasibility, reliability, and alignment with engineering best practices.
• Develop agentic AI workflows integrating LLMs, AI/ML models, APIs, orchestration frameworks, and human-in-the-loop mechanisms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex business challenges into actionable technical requirements and measurable outcomes.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, and parental, family care, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit program, with tuition, books, and fees paid for eligible programs.
• Performance-based annual or quarterly bonuses; certain positions may also include stock compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior