Staff, Data Scientist

Staff Data Scientist Specializing In Computer Vision

The Applied AI Data Science team at Walmart is seeking a talented and experienced Staff Data Scientist specializing in computer vision to join our Safety AI team. You will play a critical role in designing and deploying advanced computer vision solutions at scale, directly supporting Walmart's commitment to safety for associates and customers. This position will focus on object detection, vision-language models (VLMs), and robust deduplication of large image datasets.

Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart US offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at , through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.

Key responsibilities include :

• Develop, implement, and optimize large-scale computer vision models with a primary focus on object detection and scene understanding for safety-critical applications.
• Apply and fine-tune vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP, BLIP, or similar to enhance multi-modal reasoning and extraction of insights from image-text pairs.
• Design and implement deduplication algorithms to efficiently identify and remove redundant or duplicate images, maintaining high-quality datasets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teamsengineering, product, and business stakeholdersto integrate computer vision solutions into production systems.
• Analyze, interpret, and communicate findings from complex visual and multi-modal data to improve Walmart's safety initiatives.
• Stay current with the latest trends and research in computer vision, deep learning, and AI safety, applying new techniques where appropriate.
• Mentor and support junior data scientists, fostering a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing.

Required qualifications include :

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We are a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts, and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations.

Walmart's culture is a competitive advantage, and it's fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly, and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York / New Jersey. Benefits include a great compensation package, incentive awards, 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and more. Walmart is an Equal Opportunity Employer By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas, and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.