Position Summary...
As a Distinguished Engineer in AI Security & Safety Engineering, you are a hands-on technical leader responsible for shaping how AI systems are designed, secured, and operated across the company. You will apply deep security expertise, strong systems thinking, and software engineering excellence to assess AI platforms and drive meaningful improvements to Walmart's AI security posture.
This role requires close collaboration with engineering, platform, and product teams and serves as a force multiplier for secure-by-default and responsible AI development.
What you'll do...
About Team:
As Walmart's Information Security (InfoSec) team, we're responsible for securing our digital ecosystem, minimizing risk across the enterprise, and defending against cyberthreats. In an ever-changing digital landscape, it is vital to keep pace with cyberthreats and understand how they relate to Walmart. Information is the most expensive and fastest-growing target for cybercriminals; however, stealing data is not a cybercriminal's only motive. Whether an attack is for political, financial or hacktivist purposes, the result is the same: compromised or lost data. Our goal is to keep the data of Walmart's business, associates, and customers secure.
What You'll Do
- Review AI architectures, pipelines, and deployments to identify security and safety gaps
- Drive mitigations for AI- and LLM-specific risks across the development lifecycle
- Analyze emerging AI threats and update security standards, playbooks, and controls
- Define scalable security processes for AI and ML systems (design-time through runtime)
- Embed secure-by-default patterns into CI/CD, MLOps, and LLMOps workflows
- Build reference implementations and prototypes to validate AI security controls
- Author clear technical documentation, design diagrams, and architectural decision records
- Serve as a mentor and trusted advisor on AI security and safe engineering practices
What you'll bring:
- Strong software engineering background with advanced Python proficiency
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD and MLOps platforms (Concord, Looper; WCNP a plus)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
- Expertise in Git-based workflows and version control best practices
- Operational experience with hyperscale cloud platforms (Azure and Google Cloud)
- Strong Linux skills and Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, ARM, Ansible)
- Experience with workflow engines or policy enforcement systems
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools and deep understanding of GenAI risks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Core AI Security & Safety Expertise (Required)
- AI and LLM threat modeling: hallucination, prompt injection, jailbreaks, data poisoning, model leakage
- Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and OWASP GenAI Security Project
- Familiarity with MITRE ATLAS and adversarial AI tactics (evasion, extraction, probing, poisoning)
- Experience designing runtime AI safety controls: validation, moderation, PII detection, enforcement
- Understanding of distribution shift and out-of-distribution risks in production AI systems
- Awareness of reward hacking and objective misalignment risks
- Practical AI red-teaming and adversarial testing experience
- Deep understanding of agentic AI risks and mitigation mechanisms (HITL, sandboxing, kill switches)
- Familiarity with evolving AI regulatory and compliance expectations
Nice to Have
- Experience integrating security into ML pipelines and model deployment workflows
- Familiarity with AI risk management frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001)
- Contributions to open-source or cross-organizational security initiatives
- Experience with AI threat modeling or red-teaming programs
About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.
We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Flexible Work
Walmart's culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Chennai office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.
Benefits
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.
Belonging
We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.
At Walmart, our vision is everyone included. By fostering a workplace culture where everyone isand feelsincluded, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we're able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 6 years experience in systems and infrastructure engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.
Option 2: 8 years experience in systems and infrastructure engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Certification in Security+, GISF, GSEC, CISSP, or CCSP., Master's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 4 years experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects.
Primary Location...
TOWER 1, PART OF 1ST,2ND TO 4TH FLRS, SY NO. 141/14A, 200FT(RADIAL ROAD),ZAMIN PALLAVARAM, INTL TECH PARK, , India R-2400597
