# (USA) Principal, Data Scientist

Position Summary... What you'll do... Role summary: We are seeking a Principal Data Scientist to solve ambiguous, high-value retail problems through rigorous analytics, ML modeling, experimentation, causal inference, and deployment of scalable solutions. You will work closely with agentic AI teams to build the data science capabilities, measurement frameworks, and causal reasoning skills needed to answer users’ business-impact questions. You will shape strategy, define success metrics, validate outcomes, deploy decision-ready models and tools, and translate complex evidence into clear recommendations for product, engineering, and executive partners. About the team: Walmart Data Ventures powers the data and AI platform supporting the world’s largest retailer’s suppliers. The Walmart Scintilla team transforms extensive data into actionable insights, recommendations, and innovations that enhance customer, merchant, and supplier outcomes. This team leads advancements in generative AI, agentic intelligence, machine learning, measurement, and causal inference to redefine retail experiences, optimize operations, and develop new business models. Joining this team offers the opportunity t

- **Id**: 4084851
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walmart-usa-principal-data-scientist-7>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Bentonville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T05:04:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6873
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, 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**: 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

- **Min**: 110000
- **Max**: 220000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 220000

## Technologies

- **A/B Testing** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: yes
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **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: 2026-11-11T18:38:46Z

## 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**: 40
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.592
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:0, evergreen, wave, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 220000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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