SENIOR, DATA SCIENTIST

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Position Summary... What you'll do... About Team: GenAI Fashion team at Walmart is dedicated to the mission of reshaping how our customers interacts with us and making it frictionless for them to get what they want while building a trusted partnership. We help bring a seamless experience to our customers irrespective of how and where they engage with us - while shopping online and picking groceries at stores. We operate at the intersection of huge Walmart assortment, millions of customers, thousands of stores, and Walmart associates - a multi-layer multi-objective problem space which has a unique impact on Global consumer base and powers assisted AI for our associates. The team consists of data scientists, application engineers, big data geeks and product visionaries all working together to design, prototype and build technology-driven products and experiences that will change the future landscape of e-commerce. We are focused on building an intelligent system that will revolutionize customer experience, from finding the product to delivering it to the customer. We are building state-of-the-art machine learnt systems using cutting edge technology that has ability to A/B test in fast iterations, use GPU/CPU based online inferencing of deep learnt and traditional models, event driven architecture that serves personalized experience for customers. This will span many markets, business models and form factors, therefore, we are looking for engineers and data scientists who will being not only an abundance of experiences in technologies but an abundant curiosity to innovate. Also, the data science community at Walmart Labs is active in most of the Hack events, utilizing the petabytes of data at our disposal, to build some of the coolest ideas. All the work we do at Walmart Labs benefits our operations & our associates, helping Customers Save Money to Live Better. What you'll do: As a Senior Data Scientist for Walmart Labs, you’ll have the opportunity to Apply and/or develop statistical modeling techniques (such as deep neural networks and Bayesian models), optimization methods and other ML techniques. Develop efficient and scalable models at Walmart scale. Collaborate with counterparts in business, engineering, and science to find impactful solutions to business problems. Define and/or own the model goodness metrics and track the business impact over time. Present recommendations from complex analysis to business partners in clear and actionable form, influencing the future. What you'll bring: Qualifications PhD with >2 years of relevant experience / 4-year bachelor’s degree with > 6 years of experience / Master’s degree with > 4 years of experience. Educational qualifications should be preferably in Computer Science or a strongly quantitative discipline. Manage the continuous improvement of data science and machine learning by following industry best practices and staying up to date with and extending the state-of-the-art in Machine Learning Research

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