(IND) STAFF, SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER, INFORMATION SECURITY

About TeamAt Walmart, we prioritize innovation and data security. Our team is dedicated to maintaining a secure operating environment and preserving the trust of our customers, associates, and stakeholders. We combine a range of services and expertise to prevent fraud, detect threats, and manage digital risk and access. Our focus is on mitigating attack risks, securing cloud transformation, and fostering a culture of security and reliability. This team builds enterprise-scale AI security platforms with focus on Policy-as-Code, governance automation, and real-time enforcement.
What youll doThe Staff Engineer ensures continuous effectiveness of AI safety controls through automation, telemetry, and CI/CD safety gates. Acts as a bridge between product implementations and platform enforcement.
Business Context & Risk SurfaceOperates across multiple product teams to detect regressions and ensure consistent safety posture. Addresses classifier drift, threshold creep, and adversarial probing risks.
Scope, Ownership & Decision AuthorityOwns automation frameworks, replay systems, and safety test harnesses. Influences product safety tests and can mandate additional controls for high-risk launches.
AI Security & Safety ResponsibilitiesImplement CI/CD safety gates and regression testing for hallucination and jailbreak detection
Build replay frameworks for incident reproduction and model improvement
Design alerting and escalation for misuse trends
Platform / Engineering ResponsibilitiesIntegrate automated tests into AI pipelines
Ensure reproducible environments
Maintain adversarial datasets and RAG poisoning test corpora
Governance & ComplianceGenerate audit evidence and dashboards
Maintain logs for policy and test executions
Lead implementation of AI Governance frameworks and Responsible AI principles across platforms.
Translate regulatory standards (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act) into enforceable engineering controls.
Implement policy-as-code for governance, fairness, accountability, and transparency.
Ensure auditability, compliance, and ethical AI deployment at scale.
What Youll Bring1015 Years Experience In Software/security/AI Engineering
Experience with AI/LLM safety testing and CI/CD pipelines
Strong telemetry and observability background
Experience with replay frameworks and red-teaming integration
Ability to design safeguards for large-scale AI systems
Experience addressing hallucinations, misuse, adversarial risks
Ability to translate AI regulations into engineering solutions
About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. Thats what we do at Walmart Global Tech. Were a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the worlds 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
Walmarts 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, were 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: Bachelors degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 4 years experience in systems and infrastructure engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.
Option 2: 6 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., Masters degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 2 years experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects.
Primary Location...Tower 1, Part Of 1st, 2nd To 4th Flrs, Intl Tech Park Radial Road (radial It Park Pvt Ltd), , India