Senior Data Scientist | Gen AI products | Marketplace

Walmart is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with a strong educational background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field. With at least 7 years of industry experience (or 5 years with a Master's degree, you'll bring extensive knowledge of machine learning and statistics to develop innovative Gen AI products like Q&A assistants, Text to SQL analytics, and LLM reasoning, while applying causal learning and anomaly detection in the ecommerce domain

Team: Walmart Marketplace is a key part of e-commerce at Walmart. It is a gateway for Third-Party Sellers to manage their operations, such as onboarding, catalogs, order fulfillment, global opportunities, and return & refund management. We are responsible for providing the best in-class marketplace experience for our sellers and customers through the design, development, and operations of highly scalable systems. We interact with multiple teams within the company to develop scalable, robust technical solutions. The data scientist role will be part of the data science team and will play a key role working along with others within the Marketplace engineering organization, product managers and business stakeholders to build Machine Learning products.

More about Marketplace: https://marketplace.walmart.com/

What you'll do:

As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll have the opportunity to

• Drive data-derived insights across the wide range of retail divisions by developing advanced statistical models, machine learning algorithms and computational algorithms based on business initiatives
• Direct the gathering of data, assessing data validity and synthesizing data into large analytics datasets to support project goals
• Utilize big data analytics and advanced data science techniques to identify trends, patterns, and discrepancies in data. Determine additional data needed to support insights
• Build and train statistical models and machine learning algorithms for replication for future projects
• Communicate recommendations to business partners and influencing future plans based on insights

What you'll bring:

• Bachelors with 7 years of experience / Master’s degree with 5 years of experience. Educational qualifications should be preferably in Computer Science/Mathematics/Statistics or a related area. Experience should be relevant to the role.
• Very good knowledge of the foundations of machine learning and statistics
• Hands on experience building Gen AI products like Q&A assistants, Text to SQL analytics or LLM reasoning
• Experience in applying causal learning and anomaly detection in ecommerce domain.
• Experience in machine learning, supervised and unsupervised and deep learning.
• Experience in analyzing the complex problems and translate it into data science algorithms
• Experience with big data analytics - identifying trends, patterns, and outliers in large volumes of data
• Strong Experience in Python with excellent knowledge of Data Structures
• Strong Experience with big data platforms – Hadoop (Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, Scala, Spark)
• Hands on experience with Git
• Experience with SQL and relational databases, data warehouse.

About Walmart Global Tech: Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail

Flexible, Hybrid work:

We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity 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 diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.