Senior, Data Scientist

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bangalore, KA, India

Senior Data Scientist role focused on GenAI Search Experience at Walmart, aiming to reshape customer interaction and build intelligent systems for e-commerce. The role involves applying and developing ML techniques, building scalable models, defining metrics, and collaborating with business and engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions. Emphasis on state-of-the-art ML systems, personalized experiences, and potential for peer review in top AI conferences.

What you'd actually do

  1. Apply and/or develop statistical modeling techniques (such as deep neural networks and Bayesian models), optimization methods and other ML techniques.
  2. Develop efficient and scalable models at Walmart scale.
  3. Collaborate with counterparts in business, engineering, and science to find impactful solutions to business problems.
  4. Define and/or own the model goodness metrics and track the business impact over time.
  5. Present recommendations from complex analysis to business partners in clear and actionable form, influencing the future.

Skills

Required

  • PhD with >3 years of relevant experience / 4-year bachelor’s degree with > 6 years of experience / Master’s degree with > 4 years of experience.
  • Statistical modeling techniques
  • Deep neural networks
  • Bayesian models
  • Optimization methods
  • Machine learning techniques
  • Scalable model development
  • Model goodness metrics
  • Business impact tracking
  • Collaboration with business and engineering
  • Presenting complex analysis to business partners

Nice to have

  • Recommender Systems experience
  • Deep learning as applied in computer vision
  • Experience with LLMs
  • Ecommerce domain

What the JD emphasized

  • Peer review and publish work in top tier ML/AI conferences such as NIPS, ICML, AAAI and COLT

Other signals

  • GenAI Search Experience team
  • reshaping how customers interact
  • intelligent system that will revolutionize customer experience
  • state-of-the-art machine learnt systems
  • event driven architecture that serves personalized experience for customers
  • Apply and/or develop statistical modeling techniques
  • Develop efficient and scalable models at Walmart scale
  • Define and/or own the model goodness metrics and track the business impact over time
  • Peer review and publish work in top tier ML/AI conferences