Position Summary...

What you'll do...

What you’ll do… As an Automation Engineer focused on Systems Availability, you will play a critical role in ensuring that Walmart’s in-store automation systems remain operational, reliable, and resilient at scale. Your work will directly impact store productivity and customer fulfillment by reducing downtime, eliminating recurring failures, and strengthening the long-term stability of automation deployed across the store network. You will serve as a technical problem-solver and reliability owner, partnering closely with store-level maintenance technicians, remote monitoring teams, engineering, product, and vendors. Your primary responsibility is to analyze recurring automation incidents, identify systemic gaps, and implement durable process, design, or monitoring improvements that prevent repeat failures across multiple sites. This role is focused on operational reliability and continuous improvement, not day-to-day break/fix support. Key Responsibilities

• Own and improve Systems Availability (uptime) for assigned automation platforms across multiple store locations.
• Analyze automation downtime events and recurring incidents to identify systemic hardware, software, process, or operational contributors.
• Partner with remote monitoring teams to validate root cause assessments and distinguish between hardware, software, and process-driven failures.
• Work closely with store-level maintenance technicians to understand field conditions, common failure modes, and repair effectiveness.
• Develop and implement long-term corrective actions that eliminate repeat issues, including:
  • Process changes
  • Design or configuration recommendations
  • Preventive maintenance improvements
  • Monitoring, alerting, or diagnostic enhancements
• Lead cross-functional problem-solving efforts with Engineering, Product, Operations Support, and vendors to resolve multi-site reliability issues.
• Define, document, and standardize reliability processes, escalation paths, and recovery mechanisms to ensure consistent execution across stores.
• Use data analysis and system performance metrics to identify trends, prioritize issues, and measure the effectiveness of corrective actions.
• Support new automation deployments by providing reliability input, failure mode insights, and readiness criteria based on operational learnings.

What You’ll Bring…

• 3–5+ years of experience in automation, industrial systems, reliability engineering, or operational engineering roles.
• Demonstrated experience improving system uptime, availability, or reliability in complex, distributed environments.
• Strong root cause analysis skills, with the ability to move beyond symptoms to address underlying systemic issues.
• Experience working across hardware, software, and operational domains, and effectively partnering with field teams and remote support organizations.
• Ability to translate technical findings into clear, actionable process or design improvements.
• Data-driven mindset with experience using operational metrics to guide prioritization and decision-making.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Willingness to travel up to ~50% to support field investigations, store visits, and cross-functional problem-solving as needed (including occasional nights or weekends).

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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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 Engineering or a related field and 4 years’ experience in Engineering, supply chain, or a related area. Option 2: 6
years’ experience in Engineering, supply chain, or a related area.
2 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Masters: Computer Engineering

Primary Location...

702 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.