Walmart Principal Software Engineer 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

732071818

Collaborating with a team of AI engineers and researchers, you will help shape the future of our platform and aid in designing and implementing essential services.

What you’ll do:

• Designing and constructing fault-tolerant infrastructure to support long-running, large-scale training tasks, using containers and checkpointing libraries to maintain reliability despite individual node failures.
• Developing infrastructure for serving extensive ML models in our public cloud.
• Creating technical roadmaps, consulting on objectives and key results across teams, reviewing designs, engaging in and resolving technical discussions, and guiding engineering investments for Core ML.
• Designing and implementing benchmarks to evaluate software system performance within a Generative AI Platform, and providing recommendations on technology selection.
• Developing applications that utilize LLMs and FMs, such as conversational AI.
• Designing and implementing platform capabilities to support MLOps for foundation models.
• Optimizing AI algorithms and models to improve performance, efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, applying techniques like hyperparameter tuning, feature engineering, and model selection to enhance AI system quality and reliability.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, working closely with researchers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to comprehend their needs, gather requirements, and develop AI-powered solutions. Ensuring AI models and systems align with regulatory and industry standards by partnering with domain experts.
• Preparing and maintaining technical documentation, reports, and presentations to effectively communicate AI methodologies, results, and recommendations to diverse audiences.
• Staying informed about the latest advancements in AI, machine learning, industry trends, regulatory guidelines, data privacy, and ethical considerations related to AI applications in the Retail domain.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• At least 5 years of experience designing and building distributed computing/HPC and large-scale ML systems
• At least 6 years of experience developing AI/ML algorithms in Python or C/C++
• At least 3 years of experience with the full ML development lifecycle using open-source AI/ML frameworks and public cloud

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience with a focus on contemporary AI techniques.
• Experience designing large-scale distributed platforms and/or systems in cloud environments such as Azure or GCP.
• Experience architecting cloud systems for security, availability, performance, scalability, and cost.
• Experience delivering very large models through the MLOps life cycle from exploration to serving.
• Experience building GPU clusters in the public cloud with tightly-coupled storage and networking.
• Proficiency with the complete stack for distributed training of large models, including ML compilers, distributed training frameworks, and ML development frameworks such as Pytorch, Tensorflow, Lightning, etc.
• Familiarity with GenAI technology stack, including frameworks for prompt engineering, guardrails for GenAI applications, and LLM fine-tuning.
• Experience working with VectorDBs and other data infrastructure required to efficiently support Generative AI training pipelines and production applications.
• Experience training and maintaining large language models.
• Authored research publications in top peer-reviewed conferences or industry-recognized open-source contributions in the areas of neural networks, distributed training, and SysML.

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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 at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J . The annual salary range for this position is $168,000.00-$252,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: - Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location) - Stock equity incentives Minimum Qualifications...

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 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 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
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