# (USA) Principal, Data Scientist

Position Summary... Role summary:The Principal Data Scientist, Market Intelligence, is a high-impact role at the intersection of strategy, advanced analytics, and AI innovation. As a key member of our Market & Competitive Intelligence team, you will shape how Walmart understands the competitive landscape, uncovers growth opportunities, and translates data into enterprise-level decisions. With direct exposure to executive leadership, you will pioneer scalable data products that influence critical business decisions while solving some of retail's most challenging and impactful problems. About the team: The Market and Competitive Intelligence team drives impactful work at the intersection of strategy, advanced analytics, and AI innovation. This team shapes Walmart’s understanding of the competitive landscape, identifies growth opportunities, and translates data into enterprise-level decisions. With direct engagement with executive leadership, the team pioneers scalable data products that influence critical business outcomes. Analyze large and complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights to measure performance against competition and inform business growth opportunities

- **Id**: 971989
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walmart-usa-principal-data-scientist-4>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: San Bruno, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T18:28:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T19:04:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 57
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6281
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Growth opportunities, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce

## 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**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 109000
- **Max usd**: 215000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 450

## Technologies

- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Scala** — Optional: yes
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 57

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-16T18:28:28Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2,861 · green card filings: 870; Filings 12m: 2861

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.213
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 56
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:0, evergreen, wave, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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