Job Description
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
The Associate Fellow I is a highly technical, hands-on role within the Walmart Global Tech team, responsible for supporting architectural designs and advisory across multiple enterprise business domain areas. The role uniquely drives disruptive growth across key priorities by leveraging differentiated technical prowess and leading the overall tech strategy and architecture across a business area. The right candidate would be required to delve deep into specific applications and services, work on higher-level multi-domain system designs that transcend functional boundaries, and act as a central resource. Additionally, they will be responsible for building systems, driving holistic outcomes, and curating, mentoring, and training a vibrant engineering micro-community within the team.
Some key responsibilities include:
- Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build and scale highly reliable, secure, and performant platform / products and frameworks.
- Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and propagate build for scale mindset.
- Develop trusted partnerships with developers, business partners, product, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform / product delivery.
- Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, associate, and other stakeholders.
- Assess and leverage technology when appropriate from Global solutions existing in Walmart ecosystem to build / leverage scalable and innovative solutions.
- Build, mentor, and teach a community of engineers, and act as a central resource to provide advisory on complex projects and issues.
- Possess a high sense of urgency to solve problems and executing them with ownership.
What you'll bring:
- Engineering experience with large scale product development in open stack and microservices delivery environment.
- Familiar with new technology trends.
- A technical expert with in-depth knowledge in building distributed systems and products using hybrid cloud technology handling massive amounts of data. Should have built a complex microservices based platform or product.
- Strong knowledge of the following:
- Packaged software releases
- Open-stack technology capabilities (e.g. Python, Spark, Skala)
- Strong data integration capability (e.g. data engineering)
- Experience or proven ability to drive technical vision and provide technical mentorship to all levels of engineering talent. Must have established credibility as an advisor on complex technical issues and projects.
- Experience of working with globally distributed teams.
Preferred experiences and exposures:
- Agile methodologies.
- Performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of large-scale products.
- Good knowledge in design patterns while building cloud-native products.
- Hybrid workplace domain experience will be a huge positive.
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 $254,000.00 - $481,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
- Stock
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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.
Master’s in Computer Science, ML, or related field (or equivalent).8+ years building and deploying ML models in production.
Hands-on experience with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark ML, XGBoost).
Strong coding proficiency in Python, SQL, Java, C++, or R.
Demonstrated ability to lead architecture design for domain-specific solutions.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Contributions to enterprise-wide AI/ML initiatives or open-source projects., Experience applying responsible AI and compliance practices to production systems., Experience with pipeline orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect), Familiarity with AutoML, NAS, or advanced feature engineering.Primary Location...
1375 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of AmericaWalmart 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.Job Alerts
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Posted on
Feb 17, 2026
Apply before
Mar 19, 2026
Job typeFull-time
Salary Range
$254,000 - $481,000/yr
CategoryML Engineer
Location
United States
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