USA On-site Walmart Principal, Data Scientist

Why Here?

Walmart Data Ventures powers the data and AI platform supporting the world’s largest retailer’s suppliers. The Walmart Scintilla team transforms extensive data into actionable insights, recommendations, and innovations that enhance customer, merchant, and supplier outcomes. This team leads advancements in generative AI, agentic intelligence, machine learning, measurement, and causal inference to redefine retail experiences, optimize operations, and develop new business models.

What Will You Do?

As a Principal Data Scientist at Walmart, you will drive high-impact data science initiatives across recommendations, customer voice, market research, product innovation, segmentation, forecasting, measurement, and decision intelligence. You will frame ambiguous business questions as testable hypotheses with clear metrics and decision criteria. Additionally, you will build, validate, deploy, monitor, and improve predictive, causal, and ML solutions while designing experiments and causal measurement approaches including A/B tests, uplift modeling, difference-in-differences, and synthetic control.