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Staff Data Scientist- MLE – Recommendations & Personalization
Walmart
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Sunnyvale, United States
Location
Sunnyvale
Posted
June 04, 2026
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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...
**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...