Principal Software Engineer

Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

About Team:

Applied AI team at Walmart Global Tech is focused on using the latest research in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), statistics, deep learning, computer vision and optimization to solve business problems related to ensuring we have complete and accurate item and inventory information.  We solve exciting data science and ML engineering problems related to empower next generation use cases. We partner with our product and engineering teams to drive significant measurable business impact. Advanced AI/ML algorithms/models driven by our team help Walmart to optimize experimentation and insights frameworks, business practices, reduce cost and pass those benefits to our customers. The Data Science and ML Engineering community at Walmart Global Tech is active in most of the Hack events, utilizing the petabytes of data at our disposal, to build some of the coolest ideas. All the work we do at Walmart Global Tech will eventually benefit our operations & our associates, helping Customers Save Money to Live Better.

What you'll do:

As a Principal ML Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to

• Design large scale AI/ML products/systems impacting millions of customers

• Develop highly scalable, timely, highly-performant, instrumented and accurate data pipelines

• Identify, develop, and deliver improvements on data performance, data quality and cost, which needs to be monitored and analyzed

• Enable data governance practices and process by being a passionate adopter and ambassador

• Lead and inspire a team of scientists and engineers solving AI/ML problems through R&D while pushing the state-of-the-art

• Lead the team to develop production level code for implementation of AI/ML solutions using best practices to handle high scale and low latency requirements

• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to drive innovation at scale

• Build a strong external presence through publishing your team’s work in top-tier AI/ML conferences and developing partnerships with academic institutions

• Adhere to Walmart’s policies, procedures, mission, values, standards of ethics and integrity

• Adopt to Walmart’s quality standards, develop/recommend process standards and best practices across the retail industry

What you'll bring:

• Bachelors/Masters/PhD from a reputed institution

• Minimum of 12+ years of ML engineering experience 

• Demonstrated history of technology leadership and strong hands-on experience

• Proven records of scientific publications or intellectual property generation

• Past experience in strong programming skills across big data and ML engineering stack

• Strong communication skills with inclination to high ownership and commitment

Good to haves:

•  Recommender Systems experience, Deep learning as applied in computer vision, Experience with LLMs, Ecommerce domain.

About Walmart Global Tech:

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. 

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

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

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 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 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Primary Location...

4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, SEZ, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India