Position Summary... Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring culture of belongingawareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.
What youll do... The Conversational AI team at Walmart builds and deploys core AI assistant experiences across Walmart. The team builds the core AI platform, which powers multiple conversational assistants for shopping, customer care and employee assistance across Walmart s US and International markets. With tens of millions of active users across multiple countries these are among the largest vertical AI assistant experiences in the industry. The team is part of a larger Emerging Tech org, which is focussed on utilising emerging technologies like Conversational AI, Extended Reality, Spatial awareness, etc to reimagine and build intuitive and immersive experiences for our customers, sellers and associates.
We are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead the next evolution of the AI assistant platform by defining and building highly scalable Generative AI systems and infrastructure. This will be a hands-on technical leadership role which requires expertise at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, agent-based architectures, server-side architectures, ML model deployments and scaling, audio/video s treaming architectures, and more. Our AI assistants are rapidly incorporating LLMs, agent-based architecture with custom fine-tuned models across multiple data modalities.
As a S taff Engineer for Walmart, you ll have the opportunity to
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Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide.
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Be up-to date on industry trends in the latest Generative AI, Speech /Video processing and AI assistant architecture patterns ( e.g. agent chaining, COT, RAG, LLM guardrails etc)
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6; years of experience designing, building large distributed systems for high availability and scale using Java/ S pri ngBoot , NodeJS, Python
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5 ; years of experience and fluency with relational/no- sql (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, etc.) databases
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5 ; year of experience working with Kafka, ActiveMQ, Caches such as Redis or memcached, Elastic Search, Spark and HDFS
About Walmart Global Tech
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 re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert;s 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. We are people-led and tech-empowered.
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Minimum Qualifications...
Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Master s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years experience in software engineering or related area
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