Staff Data Scientist- MLE – Recommendations & Personalization

Walmart
📍 Sunnyvale, CA, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 22, 2026

Job Description

**Position Summary...**

**What you'll do...**

We are seeking a Staff engineer to architect and lead the feature engineering ecosystem for large-scale recommendation and personalization systems. This role owns feature strategy, platform design, and cross-team alignment, while remaining hands-on for high-impact systems.

**Responsibilities**
Feature Platform & Architecture

+ Design the end-to-end feature architecture supporting candidate generation, ranking, and re-ranking
+ Lead the design and evolution of feature stores (offline + online) optimized for recsys workloads
+ Define standards for feature versioning, lineage, freshness SLAs, and point-in-time correctness
+ Architect systems supporting real-time, near-real-time, and batch features

Technical Leadership & Influence

+ Drive feature engineering best practices across multiple recommendation teams
+ Partner with Product and ML leadership to align feature strategy w...

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Job Details

  • Location Sunnyvale, CA
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category other-general
  • Posted Date June 22, 2026
  • Application Deadline June 27, 2026