(USA) Principal, Data Scientist

• Platform Architecture & Integration: Design and support the end-to-end digital twin platform, ensuring seamless integration across data lakes, simulation engines, and visualization layers.
• Scalable Simulation Systems: Build and optimize high-throughput computing systems to run large-scale simulations with low latency and high performance.
• Agentic Orchestration: Develop orchestration frameworks for agent-based and LLM-driven simulations that enable dynamic, intelligent scenarios.
• Cross-function Collaboration: Drive productionization of models and transform research code into scalable software solutions.
• User Experience & Visualization: Enable responsive, real-time dashboards by connecting backend simulation data to intuitive user interfaces.
• Engineering Excellence: Drive best practices in software development, including CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and modular architecture.

What you'll bring..

• Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend systems, platform architecture, or high-performance computing.
• Programming Languages: Expert-level proficiency in Python and at least one high-performance language (e.g., Go, C++, Rust, or Java).
• Systems Engineering: Deep understanding of distributed systems, multi-threading, concurrency, and memory management to support low-latency applications.
• Data Integration: Strong background in connecting complex data architectures (SQL, NoSQL, Kafka, Spark) to application layers.
• Cloud & Containerization: Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP, or Azure), Docker, and Kubernetes for scalable deployments.

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 $110,000.00 - $220,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock