2026 Summer Undergrad Corporate Intern: Economist

Internship Opportunity

Held over an 11-week period during the summer of 2026 for undergrad students graduating between December 2026 and August 2027. The paid internship will prepare associates for a career with Walmart Economics team. Work on a meaningful project, network with industry experts, and develop your skills while having an epic summer!

As the Fortune One company, Walmart sells hundreds of billions of dollars a year in merchandise and employs more than one million people. Walmart's scale and the complexity of its problems necessitate careful, sophisticated analysis. The Walmart Economics team is responsible for applying the latest insights and methods from academia to drive Walmart's decision making and continued transformation.

The Walmart Economics team is growing quickly. Economists on the team work with the Chief Economist on projects across the company, including:

• Optimizing pricing
• Growing membership and subscriptions
• Increasing our sustainability
• Developing a thriving marketplace

Interns are fully immersed in the team and can expect to take on a short-term version or a component of a full-time project. You will partner with business and tech teams in our Home Office to use tools from Economics to understand the causal impact of decisions, identify and optimize tradeoffs, and drive strategy using first principles. Interns work on projects with real-world impact while gaining experience working at one of the largest companies in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and analyzing experiments
• Performing causal inference
• Framing and evaluating trade-offs
• Applying behavioral economics

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be actively enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program.
• Expected graduation date between December 2026-August 2027.
• Experience with analyzing large datasets (ideally coding in SQL, R, or Python) is a plus.
• Passion for economics or experience assisting with academic research.
• You're curious and a self-starter, naturally interested in learning more.
• You're collaborative and uplift your team when you partner with others.
• You enjoy hard problems.
• You have knowledge of experimentation and causal inference methods.
• Willingness to relocate to Walmart's Home Office Hub (Bentonville, AR) after graduation.

Preferred Majors:

• Economics
• Math
• Statistics
• Engineering
• Computer Science
• Other related majors in a quantitative field

Office Environment:

• Corporate, in-person internship

Job Location:

• This role is in Bentonville, AR or Hoboken, NJ.
• Walmart and Sams Club does offer housing and relocation benefits to students that meet qualifications.
• A successful candidate will not require sponsorship from Walmart for authorization to work now or in the future.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!