SENIOR, DATA SCIENTIST (Computer Vision)
Walmart Global Tech · Posted Oct 23
Software development, cloud infrastructure, and retail technology services for Walmart
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About the role
The Corporate Technology Services (CTS) data science team at Walmart Global Tech uses advanced machine learning, agentic AI, and optimization to solve complex business problems, building scalable ML pipelines and reference architectures on large-scale data platforms. CTS delivers technology solutions and services supporting millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. This role designs, trains, and deploys production computer vision solutions — detection, segmentation, OCR, document AI, and visual retrieval — for fintech use cases, including production monitoring of model accuracy, latency, GPU utilization, and cost.
What you will do
- Design, develop, train, and deploy production-ready computer vision solutions for fintech use cases, including detection, segmentation, OCR, document AI, and visual retrieval
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners ( Finance, Tech, Product) to align on priorities and execute initiatives
- Build and optimize computer vision architectures, embeddings, and appropriate evaluation techniques
- Monitor model accuracy, latency, throughput, drift, reliability, GPU utilization, and cost in production; identify issues and implement continuous improvements
- Articulate and present recommendations to business partners and influence plans based on insights
- Work with the customer-centric mindset to deliver high-quality business driven solutions
- Stay current with advances in computer vision, generative AI, document intelligence, vision-language models, GPU inference, and production ML practices
- Drive innovation in approach, method, practices, process, outcome, delivery, or any component of end-to-end problem solving
- Proactively engages in the external community to build Walmart's brand and learn more about industry practices
- Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Qualifications : PhD (3 yrs +) / Master’s ( 5 yrs +) / Bachelor’s (7 yrs+) preferably in Computer Science
- Strong experience in computer vision and deep learning models
- Strong understanding of CNNs, Vision Transformers, attention mechanisms, transfer learning, open source and frontier VLMs
- Experience in model evaluation , optimizing GPU inference using batching, quantization, mixed precision, TensorRT, ONNX, or equivalent technologies
- Strong hands-on expertise in Python, SQL, and the AI/ML stack
- Experience deploying models through APIs, batch pipelines, or cloud-based inference platforms
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with a strong sense of ownership and delivery focus
- Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work closely with both technical and non-technical partners
- Option 1- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2- Master's degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 1 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3 - 5 years' experience in an analytics or related field.
Benefits and support
- Incentive awards for performance
- Maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Health benefits
About Walmart Global Tech
Walmart Global Tech is the technological powerhouse and engineering arm of Walmart Inc., responsible for building and managing foundational technologies, cloud infrastructure, and software systems. The organization powers global retail operations across Walmart U.S., Sam's Club, and Walmart International, delivering customer experiences and enterprise services worldwide. Operating across multiple global hubs, it unites engineering, data science, product design, and artificial intelligence to digitally transform retail.
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Company size
- 25000+ employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President, AI Acceleration, Product and Design
Senior Vice President and Tech Operating Partner, Walmart International
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