Staff, Software Engineer - Merchandising Transformation

About the role

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:

Join Walmart as a Staff Software Engineer on the Decision Intelligence & AI Solutions team within Merchandising Transformation, where you will design and develop scalable AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation solutions to address complex merchandising challenges. You will build applications, APIs, intelligent workflows, and integrations that improve decision-making, optimize merchandising strategies, and accelerate execution. Collaborating with merchandising, product, data science, and technology teams, you will translate 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.

About the team:

The Decision Intelligence & AI Solutions team within Merchandising Transformation develops scalable AI, advanced analytics, decision intelligence, and automation capabilities to address complex merchandising challenges. Collaborating across merchandising, product, technology, and enterprise teams, the group identifies impactful business opportunities and creates intelligent solutions that enhance decision-making, optimize strategies, and streamline operations. By leveraging data science, AI/ML, agentic AI, and automation, the team transforms insights into actionable recommendations and scalable solutions that improve business performance across Walmart’s merchandising ecosystem.

What you'll do:

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 to enable intelligent decision-making and automated execution.

Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex business challenges into actionable technical requirements and measurable outcomes.

What you'll bring:

Strong expertise in agentic AI, generative AI, and intelligent automation, including LLM integration, agent orchestration, tool use, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

Proven experience designing/ developing scalable, production-grade applications, leveraging cloud-native technologies, APIs, microservices, and workflow automation.

Advanced proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices to build intelligent applications, automation services, and reusable components.

Strong understanding of AI/ML frameworks, LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, agent evaluation, and guardrails to develop reliable and responsible AI solutions.

Experience with software design patterns, API integrations, and rapid prototyping to deliver modular, maintainable, and scalable solutions.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD, testing, deployment, monitoring, and observability to ensure reliability and operational excellence

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Information Systems, Masters: Statistics

Primary Location...

601 Respect Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.