Senior, Data Scientist @ Walmart

The People.AI team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Scientist. In this individual contributor role, you need to possess excellent hands-on experience as well as a deep passion for AI/ML product development. This role involves development of innovative GenAI/AI systems on an enterprise scale, implementing cutting-edge Generative AI technologies, and collaborating with a highly synergized team of data scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers. Also, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our products and systems with responsibilities including driving the creation and maintenance of technical architecture, aligning it with business goals and scalability requirements, and architecting complex AI/ML systems to ensure robustness, responsible-AI, and scalability needs are met. Additionally, the role involves collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and establishing and enforcing coding standards through thorough code reviews.

 

What you'll do:

This is a vital role with significant growth prospects. You will have work to do from day one and you will be counted on to create opportunities that align with the overall organization goals. Some of this role s key responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Collaborate with a team of data scientists, machine learning engineers and software engineers to design, architect, build AI/ML models and systems, and deploy, operate and optimize the solutions

Work in an Agile practice in a highly collaborative environment with a multidisciplinary team.

Design end-to-end system architecture for GenAI/AI/ML and data intensive applications

Develop and deploy production-grade real-time/batch machine learning services

Work with product managers to design user journeys, feedback loop and analyze user telemetry

Identify or propose AI/ML use-cases to business teams to improve business processes and develop quick MVPs/ POCs to help stakeholders make better decisions

Uphold a set of robust work standards to ensure we build trustworthy AI/ML solutions

Collaborate with applied researchers and data scientists to iteratively improve our ML models and refine MLOps practice

 

What you'll bring:

 

You have 6+ years experience in design, development, deployment, and maintenance of highly scalable, robust, and user-centric GenAI /AI /ML products and applications

You have a bachelors/masters degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, statistics, economics, mathematics, or related area

You have excellent industry experience in production-grade AI/ML system development with major technology companies or AI-native start-ups.

You have experience in production-grade python code development.

You can execute our trustworthy AI/ML practice with stakeholders across the enterprise.

You can communicate internally and externally through publications, presentations, and other mediums on research progress, major breakthroughs, and product innovation.

You have extensive experience with statistical analysis and programming languages eg Python and mainstream machine learning frameworks, eg TensorFlow or PyTorch.

You have experience in building deep learning applications, neural network deployment optimizations and architecting ML systems

You have experience in developing chatbots/ NLP/ recommendation-engine systems

You are excited about building distributed machine learning systems at scale in production

You are familiar with version control using Git in collaboration settings

You have experience at writing high-performing production-quality code in Python

You have experience in working with end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and experience with Kubernetes

You are research driven, thorough and detail oriented

You believe in the importance of establishing work standards and leveraging automations

You have a history of collaboration, openness, honesty, timely decision making, and clear communication in both verbal and written forms

You embrace lifelong learning - always learning new technologies and techniques. You are also engaged in the open-source communities to both find answers and help others

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 is and feels included, 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, we re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.