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Principal, Data Scientist @ Walmart

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 Principal, Data Scientist

Job Description

 
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
  • Construct multi-agent intelligent workflows that translate natural language inputs into complex, goal-directed task sequences.
  • Mentor team of data scientists to develop their skills and business understanding
  • 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 13+ 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 extensive experience in production-grade python code development.
  • You can execute our trustworthy AI/ML practice with stakeholders across the enterprise.
  • You can effectively m entor junior data scientists and guide them through ambiguous technical problems on the project
  • You can communicate internally and externally through publication s , presentations, and other mediums on research progress, major breakthroughs, and product innovation.
  • You have e xtensive experience with statistical analysis and programming languages e.g. Python and mainstream machine learning frameworks, e.g. TensorFlow or PyTorch .
  • You have e xperience in building deep learning applications, neural network deployment optimizations and architecting ML systems
  • Y ou 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
Bonus Skills:
  • Experience developing or fine-tuning large language models (LLMs), including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or open-weight model customization .
  • Experience in building multi-modal GenAI action agents .
  • Publication history in top-tier ML/NLP conferences such as NeurIPS , ICML, ACL, EMNLP, or ICLR
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Equal Opportunity Employer
Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.
Minimum Qualifications...
Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 5 years experience in an analytics related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 3 years experience in an analytics related field. Option 3: 7 years experience in an analytics or related field.
Preferred Qualifications...

Job Classification

Industry: Retail
Functional Area / Department: Data Science & Analytics
Role Category: Data Science & Machine Learning
Role: Data Scientist
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Walmart
Location(s): Bengaluru

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Keyskills:   Procurement Computer science System architecture ERP Coding Machine learning enterprise business Open source Information technology Python

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