# PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST

Position Summary... What you'll do... About the Team The Foundation Models team builds shared, reusable AI that the rest of Walmart builds on. Our models serve Walmart US, International markets, and Sam's Club in many areas: online search and recommendations, sponsored products, catalog understanding, store and inventory planning and optimization, and Walmart's conversational agents for customers, sellers, engineers, and associates. We train models at scale, and they lift many products at the same time. What you'll do: This is a senior IC role with real room to set direction. You will define the problem statements and the solution direction. You'll own the full lifecycle: spotting the highest-leverage bets, getting stakeholders on board, framing the science, and leading execution through data engineering, large-scale training, inference optimization, and production rollout. We'll judge success by what ships and what customers and the business can measure, not by prototypes. Identify problems: Find where foundation models can bring step-change gains across Walmart, then write the science vision and multi-quarter roadmap. Influence: Build alignment across product, engineering, ads,

- **Id**: 3885163
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walmart-principal-data-scientist-3>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T01:00:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6525
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Marketplaces, Retail & Shop Systems, Online Groceries

## Company

- **Id**: 236
- **Name**: Walmart
- **Domain**: walmart.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/walmart>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 343
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.117
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **A/B Testing** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **DeepSpeed** — Optional: no
- **FSDP** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Megatron-LM** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT-LLM** — Optional: no
- **Triton** — Optional: no
- **Triton Inference Server** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T19:23:11Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.839
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:late, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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