(IND) SENIOR, DATA SCIENTIST

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What you'll do...

Job Title: Senior Data Scientist

Location: Bangalore

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 Senior 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 driving 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 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.

Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of several exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart.

As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Each time an associate turns on their laptop, a customer makes a purchase, a new supplier is onboarded, the company closes the books, physical and legal risk is avoided, and when we pay our associates consistently and accurately, that is EBS. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart.

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

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 6+ 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 experience in production-grade python code development.

You can execute our trustworthy AI/ML practice with stakeholders across the enterprise.

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 Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

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 a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing 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- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2- Master's degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 1 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3 - 5 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 R-2142129