Distinguished, Data Scientist

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bellevue, WA

Distinguished Data Scientist role at Walmart focused on driving innovative AI/ML solutions for Marketplace, mentoring teams, and developing/deploying ML products at scale. The role involves researching and developing solutions using foundation models, identifying business opportunities with ML/Computer Vision, and establishing model evaluation and deployment standards.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive innovative strategic solutions for Marketplace utilizing advanced SOTA AI and ML solutions at large scale and at accelerated pace.
  2. Drive data-derived insights by developing advanced statistical models, machine learning algorithms and computational algorithms based on business initiatives
  3. Work closely with Directors, Sr. Managers of Data Science, and leaders of Architecture, Engineering, Product & business teams to drive the Organizational strategy around Marketplace.
  4. Direct the gathering of data, assess data validity and synthesize data into large analytics datasets to support project goals
  5. Mentor and guide a set of Data Scientists, Data Analysts across IDC and US to drive Marketplace growth and operation efficiency using advanced Machine Learning and Gen AI.

Skills

Required

  • Advanced statistical modeling
  • Machine learning algorithms
  • Computational algorithms
  • Big data analytics
  • Computer Vision
  • MLOps
  • Foundation models

Nice to have

  • Multilingual models
  • Multimodal models

What the JD emphasized

  • advanced SOTA AI and ML solutions
  • advanced Machine Learning and Gen AI
  • multilingual and multimodal foundation models
  • advanced ML/Computer Vision

Other signals

  • Drive innovative strategic solutions for Marketplace utilizing advanced SOTA AI and ML solutions at large scale and at accelerated pace.
  • Mentor and guide a set of Data Scientists, Data Analysts across IDC and US to drive Marketplace growth and operation efficiency using advanced Machine Learning and Gen AI.
  • Research and develop innovative content-improvement solutions leveraging multilingual and multimodal foundation models.
  • Identify complex business opportunities solvable with advanced ML/Computer Vision; evaluate and prioritize business cases.
  • Establish model evaluation/testing standards and documentation; guide deployment via MLOps best practices.