(IND) STAFF, DATA SCIENTIST

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Bangalore, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka
Hybrid
Senior level
Big Data • Cloud • Logistics • Machine Learning • Retail
The Role
The Staff Data Scientist at Walmart's People.AI team will develop AI and GenAI systems to boost productivity and satisfaction for associates. This role requires expertise in AI/ML product development, leading technical architecture initiatives, ensuring scalability, and mentoring junior staff while collaborating with other engineers in a data-driven environment.
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Position Summary...Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

Job Summary 

Walmart is a multi-national people led tech powered omnichannel retailer with over 2.2M associates. At People.AI, we help, support, and empower the Walmart’s HR function with AI and GenAI solutions to improve productivity, harnessing the opportunities for growth, focusing on well-being, and cultivating cultures of belonging for all Walmart's associates. People.AI is a horizontal data science team supporting People Tech and Services across a multitude of use-cases and business domains.  

 

People.AI strategy aims to empower the people business and associates by converting Walmart’s people data, business processes, knowledge, and HR subject matter expertise into different productivity experiences like knowledge search and Q&A, data analytics and insights, actions, and recommendations etc. People.AI is building a GenAI powered platform named My Assistant to enable all Walmart associates with multitude of integrated services and experiences to help increase productivity and boost associate satisfaction. 

  

The People.AI team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Data Scientist. In this individual contributor role, you need to possess excellent hands-on experience as well as a deep passion for AI/ML product development. This role involves development of innovative GenAI/AI systems on an enterprise scale, implementing cutting-edge Generative AI technologies, and collaborating with a highly synergized team of data scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers. Also, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our products and systems with responsibilities including leading the creation and maintenance of technical architecture, aligning it with business goals and scalability requirements, and architecting complex AI/ML systems to ensure robustness, responsible-AI, and scalability needs are met. Additionally, the role involves providing hands-on technical guidance to junior data scientists collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and establishing and enforcing coding standards through thorough code reviews. 

 

About Team: 

The EBS People Technology organization supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience. 

 

Enterprise Business Services (EBS) @ IDC Bangalore and Chennai in India are focused on data driven, highly optimized products and implementations in the areas of Finance, Procurement, Human Resources and Retail business functions for multiple Walmart markets with open stack technologies and other ERP tools. 

 

 

What you'll do: 

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 

  • 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 9+ years' experience in design, development, deployment, and maintenance of highly scalable, robust, and user-centric GenAI /AI /ML products and applications 

  • You have a bachelor's/master's 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 mentor junior data scientists and guide them through ambiguous technical problems on the project 

  • You can communicate internally and externally through publications, presentations, and other mediums on research progress, major breakthroughs, and product innovation. 

  • You have extensive experience with statistical analysis and programming languages e.g. Python and mainstream machine learning frameworks, e.g. TensorFlow or PyTorch. 

  • You have experience in building deep learning applications, neural network deployment optimizations and architecting ML systems 

  • You 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  

About Global Tech 

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption. 

 

Ways of Working 

 

Flexible, hybrid work 

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives. 

 

Benefits  

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include many best-in-class benefits like maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and more. 

 

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 to 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. 

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 4 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3: 6 years' experience in an analytics or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location...Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India

Top Skills

Python
The Company
HQ: Bentonville, AR
578,950 Employees
Hybrid Workplace

What We Do

Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.

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