What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff, Machine Learning Engineer position at Walmart Global Tech?
As a company, Walmart primarily generates revenue through advertising, and we're working towards building a massive business to fund our mission. The Display Ads ML team builds services that enable advertisers to efficiently capture and predict user engagement while minimizing their costs. The team leverages machine learning models to incorporate advertisers’ goals in auction ranking, allowing them to maximize installs, key conversions, or return on ad spend. As the primary owners of the engagement prediction and bid recommendation systems, the team is responsible for a central part of the ads delivery system that generates bid recommendation considering advertiser objectives and user engagement scores. Given the centrality of this system, the team also regularly conducts highly rigorous and controlled experiments to measure the impact of improvements to these systems. Some of the project highlights include maximizing conversions campaign optimization, which uses real-time data to meet advertisers’ key objectives.
As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will work closely with technical leaders to build new advertiser optimization products that significantly increase the efficiency and ROI for the advertisers.
- You will be responsible for the quality and technical approach within the team; partner with other leads in direction setting, planning, and overseeing engineering designs and executions; establish and contribute to the group’s culture and processes.
- You will collaborate with cross-functional engineering, product, and marketing teams to ensure that our customers’ voices are represented in your work. You will design, conduct, and analyze experiments to quantify the impact of the systems that you build.
- We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to take a critical role in building state-of-the-art bidding optimization and user prediction systems. As a leader of this team, you will help us uplevel the capabilities of Walmart Display Ads platform through innovative optimization products that enhance advertiser value.
About Team :
Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.
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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.
Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.
Our hubs : Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York / New Jersey.
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.
