# Staff, Data Scientist – AI Agent Platform

Position Summary... What you'll do... About Team We are building the next generation of AI-powered shopping experiences at Walmart, centered around our Super-Agent Sparky-an intelligent orchestrator that connects interactions across a rich ecosystem of specialized application agents. From intent-driven product discovery and context-aware recommendations to seamless checkout, smart substitutions, and end-to-end order tracking, Sparky transforms the entire shopping journey into a fluid, conversational experience. For data scientists and ML engineers, this is a large-scale, real-world AI problem: designing multimodal systems that combine text, voice, and visual understanding; building retrieval and ranking systems over vast and dynamic catalogs; and developing real-time personalization under tight latency and reliability constraints. The work spans applied machine learning, experimentation, and optimization-powering intelligent systems that continuously improve how millions of customers discover and shop. We are looking for a Staff data scientist to lead the next evolution of the AI assistant platform by defining and building highly scalable Generative AI systems and infrastructure. T

- **Id**: 4061915
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walmart-staff-data-scientist-ai-agent-platform>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T09:05:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T09:05:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8344
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, 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**: 349
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.117
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Hadoop** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **Speech Recognition** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T09:05:58Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T11:43:39Z

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