Location
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Posted
July 21, 2026
Job Description
**Position Summary...**
**What you'll do...**
**Role summary:**
As a Staff Data Scientist, you will be at the forefront of AI innovation, developing machine learning and reinforcement learning models for driver search and matching. You will be leading a team of Applied Scientist to design, train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor production models. You will collaborate closely with business, product, and engineering teams to ensure AI objectives align with Walmart’s business goals. Your work will directly improve driver experience, operational efficiency, and delivery reliability, driving measurable business impact.
**About the team:**
Spark Driver Platform operates across all 50 U.S. states, empowering millions of drivers to provide local delivery and making it Walmart's largest local delivery service provider. The Spark Driver Applied AI team advances machine learning, deep learning, Reinforcement Learning models, and LLM to improve platform efficie...
**What you'll do...**
**Role summary:**
As a Staff Data Scientist, you will be at the forefront of AI innovation, developing machine learning and reinforcement learning models for driver search and matching. You will be leading a team of Applied Scientist to design, train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor production models. You will collaborate closely with business, product, and engineering teams to ensure AI objectives align with Walmart’s business goals. Your work will directly improve driver experience, operational efficiency, and delivery reliability, driving measurable business impact.
**About the team:**
Spark Driver Platform operates across all 50 U.S. states, empowering millions of drivers to provide local delivery and making it Walmart's largest local delivery service provider. The Spark Driver Applied AI team advances machine learning, deep learning, Reinforcement Learning models, and LLM to improve platform efficie...