Walmart
Walmart
Walmart is a global retail and eCommerce company serving consumers through hypermarkets, discount department stores, grocery locations, and an online marketplace. Its broad product offering is supported by a large physical-store network, direct-to-consumer operations, and the logistics and supply-chain systems needed to keep products moving across the business.

Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI — Walmart

Lead the architecture and development of scalable agentic AI applications and multi-agent systems at Walmart. Partner across engineering, data science, product, and business teams to deliver enterprise AI products.

Description

  • Build and deploy scalable agentic AI applications and multi-agent systems.
  • Guide architecture and technical design for secure, highly available, high-performance platforms.
  • Turn business requirements, operational workflows, and user needs into production-ready solutions.
  • Work with product managers, data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders.
  • Lead the full development lifecycle, from solution design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvement.
  • Integrate AI platforms and APIs with enterprise systems and large-scale data environments.
  • Promote engineering quality through code review, testing, observability, and sound operational practices.
  • Set development standards for agentic AI, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and LLM integration.
  • Mentor and support engineers across teams.
  • Help shape technology roadmaps and the direction of Walmart’s AI-powered products.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related field plus 4 years of software engineering or related experience; alternatively, 6 years of relevant experience.
  • Significant experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and enterprise applications.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python, Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
  • Experience designing and delivering scalable cloud-native applications and microservices architectures.
  • Knowledge of AI and machine learning, large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic frameworks.
  • Strong grounding in software design, system architecture, API development, and cloud platforms.
  • Experience with data platforms, analytics systems, and modern engineering toolchains.
  • Ability to influence technical strategy and lead cross-functional initiatives.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and taking technical projects from concept through production.
  • Preferred: advanced degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field.
  • Preferred: experience with vector databases, knowledge graphs, LLM orchestration, AI evaluation frameworks, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or AWS.
  • Preferred: familiarity with retail, supply chain, omnichannel commerce, logistics, or operational systems.
  • Preferred: knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility practices.

Benefits

  • Performance-based bonus awards
  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Stock purchase plan
  • Company-paid life insurance
  • Paid time off, including sick leave
  • Parental leave
  • Family care leave
  • Bereavement leave
  • Jury duty leave
  • Voting leave
  • Short-term disability coverage
  • Long-term disability coverage
  • Company discounts
  • Military leave pay
  • Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
  • PTO and/or PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
  • Live Better U, Walmart’s company-paid education benefit program
  • Tuition, books, and fees paid for eligible education programs
  • English language learning and short-form certificate programs

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