(USA) Principal, Data Scientist

Role summary:

Walmart is seeking a Principal Data Scientist specializing in Computer Vision to build and scale AI capabilities across Global Governance. This role will focus on applying computer vision, multimodal AI, and advanced machine learning to high-impact use cases across Global Security, Product Safety, Compliance, and related domains. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, and Business teams to develop production-grade vision systems, improve detection and decision-making, and create reusable capabilities that operate reliably at Walmart scale.

About the team:

The Global Governance Technology team develops advanced technology and AI solutions to safeguard Walmart, its associates, customers, and business operations across key governance and risk areas. The team addresses complex challenges in Security, Compliance, Investigations, Privacy, Legal, Product Safety, and Global Trade. Emphasizing accuracy, reliability, privacy, explainability, and scalability, the team leverages expertise in machine learning, data modeling, and predictive analytics to deliver impactful, trustworthy solutions that support critical business functions worldwide.

What you''ll do:

Design and deliver production-scale computer vision solutions across detection, classification, tracking, segmentation, video understanding, anomaly detection, and multimodal AI. Develop end-to-end pipelines spanning data collection, labeling, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and model improvement. Partner with Engineering to optimize inference, latency, cost, and edge/cloud deployment. Establish reusable computer vision frameworks and evaluation standards, support responsible AI and privacy requirements, and translate business problems into measurable technical solutions. Mentor other scientists and contribute to technical direction across Global Governance.

What you''ll bring:

Deep expertise in computer vision, deep learning, and applied machine learning, with hands-on experience building and deploying production vision systems. Strong knowledge of modern vision architectures, video analytics, object detection, tracking, segmentation, multimodal models, and representation learning is expected. Experience with Python and frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, along with large-scale data pipelines, model serving, and MLOps, is important. You should bring strong analytical judgment, experience working with noisy real-world data, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam''s Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor''s degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $132,000.00 - $264,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock