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(USA) Principal, Data Scientist
Walmart
Sunnyvale, CA
Source: Walmart careers · View original posting
- Pay
- The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00
- Employment
- full time
Employer job description
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Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Role summary:
The Principal Data Scientist will lead the design, development, and deployment of AI-powered Search and Personalization systems serving hundreds of millions of customers across Walmart's global eCommerce platforms. This role demands deep expertise in information retrieval, ranking, recommendation systems, and Generative AI applied at production scale. You will define technical strategy, shape ML architecture, and partner with Product and Engineering to turn ambiguous discovery problems into measurable customer and business outcomes, while mentoring a team of senior scientists raising the bar across the discipline.
About the team:
Walmart's Search & Personalization team shapes how hundreds of millions of customers discover products every day. We sit at the intersection of AI research and global-scale systems, owning query understanding, retrieval, ranking, recommendations, and real-time personalization end to end. We work closely with Ads and Sparky, Walmart's AI shopping assistant, building the science that powers discovery across the full customer journey.