Walmart is a retail corporation that operates several chains of supermarkets, discount stores, and e-commerce platforms. They are seeking a highly motivated Data Scientist III to work within their Wmt B2B team, focusing on providing data-driven insights and predictions to drive business growth. The role involves partnering with various stakeholders to design and deploy machine learning models while maintaining and improving existing models.
Partner with other data scientists, engineers and product managers to design, train, test and deploy machine learning models.
Work on projects with substantial ambiguity and translate business and engineering requirements to identify and define a clear roadmap to deliver the ML models.
Perform rigorous offline and A/B testing of your models and communicate your findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and through written communications.
Bring in bleeding-edge academic research and industry practices and demonstrate originality and creativity in developing novel solutions for or Recommendation Systems.
You will help maintain models, improve them as needed to bring in cutting-edge research, within a highly scalable infrastructure.
Qualification
Required
Must have a deep background in NLP, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Optimization, Algorithm and Software development.
Sound knowledge of Python, SQL, PySpark, Machine Learning Libraries, Big Data processing systems in cloud environment is expected.
A track record of building ML models or delivering impactful customer-facing products as tech lead and mentoring early-career data scientists.
Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years' experience in an analytics or related field.
Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
Option 3: 4 years' experience in an analytics or related field.
Preferred
Data science, machine learning, optimization models
Master’s degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics
Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R
Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch)
We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Benefit
401(k) match
Stock purchase plan
Paid maternity and parental leave
PTO
Multiple health plans
Medical, vision and dental coverage
Company-paid life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program
Walmart is a retail corporation that operates several chains of supermarkets, discount stores, and e-commerce platforms.
