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Walmart Canada · 3 months ago

(USA) Senior Manager, Automation Engineering- Data Modeling and Simulation

Bentonville, AR

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$110K/yr - $220K/yr

4+ years exp

Walmart Canada is a leading retail company seeking a Senior Manager in Automation Engineering specializing in Data Modeling and Simulation. This role focuses on developing innovative engineering solutions to enhance customer experience and optimize the store fulfillment network, utilizing large datasets and simulation models.

DeliveryRetailShopping

Responsibilities

Develop Digital Twins to identify potential bottlenecks and improvement opportunities with design and make recommendations to maximize customer service level and overall return on investment; build 3-D animation and visualization of the simulation model and present to engineering leadership

Perform extensive SQL-based data extraction, manipulation, and analysis to generate actionable insights; create tailored visualizations that clearly communicate complex findings to both executive leadership and technical engineering teams, supporting data-driven strategic decision-making

Develop data models to execute algorithms that drive product put away/replenishment, process flows, order prioritization, order batching, etc. and make recommendations of optimization algorithms that maximize asset utilization, throughput, and system/associate performance

Lead, manage, and guide external partners like Symbotic and Knapp to deliver highly scalable simulation models

Provide key business and system inputs, technical outputs and business outcomes to shape Walmart’s Store Fulfillment Simulation strategy

Combine technologies building blocks like image-based modeling, AI and machine learning, and physics-based game modeling

Qualification

Simulation ModelingAdvanced AnalyticsData ModelingDiscrete Event SimulationPythonSQLOptimization AlgorithmsSupplier ManagementVisionary MindsetMachine Learning

Required

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field and 4 years' experience in Engineering, supply chain, or a related area

6 years' experience in Engineering, supply chain, or a related area

2 years' supervisory experience

Experience leading a Simulation / Data Science team providing key business and system design inputs, validation, and optimization value propositions for efficiency and innovation

Advanced level experience in data analytics and visualization

Advanced level experience building discrete event simulation models from scratch using industry standard tools such as Enterprise Dynamics, Anylogic, FlexSim, NVIDIA Omniverse

Advanced understanding of E2E process flow modeling (FC, warehouse preferred)

Expert in using python Simpy and other big-data analysis tools such as (Pandas, Sci-kit, Numpy) with demonstrated experience in having used these tools in complex models

Fundamental understanding of ML concepts and experience using tensorFlow/Pytorch etc

Advanced experience in SQL querying languages

Experience developing optimization algorithms from scratch (Formulation of objective functions, Gurobi or PulP solvers)

Preferred

Masters: Computer Engineering

Benefits

Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.

Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.

Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.

Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.