Senior Data Scientist, Supply Chain Optimization

Walmart

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Work type
On-site
Location
Bentonville, AR
Salary
$110,302–$180,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
1 day ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Nov 11, 2026

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Below market

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About Walmart

Walmart Inc. is the world''s largest retailer by revenue, operating a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, as well as a growing e-commerce presence through Walmart.com. Industry: General Merchandise & Grocery Retail

Walmart currently has 939 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Data Scientist, Supply Chain Optimization

The Senior Data Scientist – Supply Chain Optimization will join the team to design and deploy intelligent, goal-driven agents that optimize customer delivery promises, fulfillment routing, and root-cause analysis across supply chain workflows. The role involves building agents capable of reasoning, planning, and memory management using LangChain, LangGraph, and Google ADK. Key responsibilities include implementing trainable model architectures with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Huggingface, and developing scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems using Pinecone, Milvus, and ChromaDB. You will utilize Python, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, and SQL to process large-scale datasets for ETA prediction and reliability. The position requires applying advanced machine learning, including XGBoost and K-Means, to solve complex logistics problems while ensuring production reliability through Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

What does a Data Scientist earn?

Median $173200 from 344 postings across 66 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and deploy intelligent agents to optimize fulfillment routing and supply chain workflows.
  • Build agents capable of reasoning, planning, and tool usage using LangChain, LangGraph, and Pydantic.
  • Implement trainable model architectures and NLP solutions using PyTorch, TensorFlow, and HuggingFace.
  • Develop scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using vector databases and knowledge graphs.
  • Apply machine learning techniques like XGBoost and K-Means to large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
  • Deploy AI/ML systems into production using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Develop evaluation and observability frameworks to monitor model performance, hallucination rates, and latency.
  • Translate AI research from conferences like NeurIPS and ICML into scalable enterprise solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Analytics, Engineering, or a related field plus 1 year of experience in analytics.
  • Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Analytics, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience building Deep Learning model architectures in Python using PyTorch, TensorFlow, and LangChain.
  • Experience pre-training and fine-tuning language models from HuggingFace or TFHub for NLP tasks.
  • Experience with generative models (GPT) and encoder-based models (BERT, RoBERTa) for language-based reasoning.
  • Proficiency in advanced statistical and modeling methods using scikit-learn, scipy, and computational semantics tools like SpaCy or NLTK.
  • Experience with CI/CD, testing, and documentation in software development using UML, State and Activity workflows, and Java.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms (GCP/Azure), Airflow, and vector databases (Pinecone, Milvus, ChromaDB).

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