(USA) Senior Manager, Automation Engineering

Senior Manager, Automation Engineering Performance & Tools

Join Walmart's Accelerated Pickup & Delivery (APD) team to transform back-of-Store fulfillment through automation. This role focuses on scaling and optimizing our 30K automation initiative, where robots deliver products for digital orders, supporting the future of retail. You'll own Automation Performance, Insights and Tools including building automation potential and acceptance criteria for new systems, pinpoint performance loss opportunities with actionable insights, eliminate performance loss through test & learn mechanisms, and build associate facing and insights tools to maximize systems performance. This work will be integral to delivering our 30K automation initiative running at peak system performance and pick rate to solve one of retail's most critical challenges : efficient Store fulfillment.

What You'll Do

• Own system acceptance : define acceptance testing plans, success criteria, and vendor-specific automation potential and acceptance goals (throughput, cycle time, quality, uptime).
• Find and fix performance loss : conduct structured RCA (data + Automation studies), implement corrective actions, and verify impact.
• Set & drive vendor expectations : translate specs into measurable SLAs, run scorecards, and lead performance reviews.
• Lead efficiency initiatives : design experiments, optimize flow / bottlenecks, and standardize best practices across sites.
• Instrument & analyze : track KPIs (e.g., OEE, pick rate, tote cycle time, queue latency), build trend / insight reports, and raise data-backed flags.
• Build performance tools : develop dashboards, alerting, and diagnostics (telemetry pipelines, event logs, health scores, Pareto views).
• Track to goal : maintain target vs. actual performance, highlight gaps, and drive closure plans with site and vendor teams.
• Feed future designs : convert field learnings into requirement updates, reference designs, and design-for-performance specs.
• Travel ~25% to stores, vendor sites, and trials.

Must Haves

Nice to Have

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.

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.

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 : stock.

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 : 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.