Distinguished, Data Scientist
Distinguished, Data Scientist
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About Walmart
Walmart employs more than 2.3 million associates worldwide with 1.6 million associates in the U.S. Each year Walmart hires 500000 applicants to fill thousands of job profiles ranging from engineers designers and marketers to pilots and buyers. We promote over 300000 people annually to positions of greater responsibility.
About the People Technology Team
The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates focus on what matters most supporting our customers and members. People Technology is a significant segment of Walmart Global Techs Enterprise Business Services invested in building a compact robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance People and the Associate Digital Experience.
About the Team
The team is responsible for developing and deploying AI/ML solutions to support Walmart associates globally. In this role you will build an LLM-powered intelligent experience within a chatbot or business application to enhance associate experience and productivity. You will design and build an intelligent conversational interface that improves communication automates tasks accesses data and insights and provides personalized Q&A support to associates ultimately creating a more efficient and engaging work environment.
What Youll Do
- Develop LLM-powered intelligent experiences that interpret and generate insights from both tabular and unstructured data.
- Build and optimize personalized Q&A systems using large language models enabling context-aware responses tailored to user needs.
- Design and enhance conversational talent recommendation systems combining autonomous agent architectures with personalized recommendation algorithms.
- Advance traditional recommendation systems by evolving them from simple ranked lists to multi-topic interactive experiences that better reflect user intent.
- Construct multi-agent intelligent workflows that translate natural language inputs into complex goal-directed task sequences.
- Collaborate within a highly cross-functional team including data scientists machine learning engineers product managers and UX designers.
- Partner with fellow data scientists to design prototype and iterate on AI/ML models and system architectures.
- Work closely with machine learning engineers to deploy monitor and optimize scalable AI/ML solutions in production environments.
- Collaborate with product managers to design intuitive user experiences define feedback loops and analyze user telemetry to guide product improvements.
- Engage in end-to-end AI/ML product development from ideation to deployment while continually expanding your technical and product skillset.
- Follow and help define robust development standards to ensure the creation of trustworthy safe and responsible AI systems.
- Contribute to internal and external AI/ML research through experimentation whitepapers and collaboration with the broader AI community.
What Youll Bring
- Proven experience deploying high-risk NLP applications in real-world production environmentssuch as those involving regulatory compliance privacy safety or fairness.
- Demonstrated ability to advance and implement Trustworthy AI and Responsible ML practices working cross-functionally with engineering legal policy and product stakeholders across a large enterprise.
- Track record of mentoring and coaching junior data scientists especially in navigating ambiguous or novel problem spaces.
- Strong applied machine learning experience with solid foundational knowledge in statistics optimization and deep learningpreferably gained at leading technology companies (e.g. Google Meta Microsoft) or AI-first startups.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex technical work into accessible insights for executive briefings research publications and external presentations.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and common ML/DS libraries such as NumPy pandas scikit-learn as well as deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow PyTorch.
- Experience designing and deploying scalable deep learning systems including neural network architecture optimization model distillation quantization or on-device inference.
- Strong understanding of machine learning infrastructure including experience with Kubeflow MLflow Airflow is a plus.
- 8 years of industry experience with a demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex projects and deliver impactful AI/ML solutions from concept to production.
Bonus Skills
- Hands-on experience with Text-to-SQL or Text-to-Cypher based applications or the design of modern recommender systems.
- Experience developing or fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) including prompt engineering retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or open-weight model customization.
- Publication history in top-tier ML/NLP conferences such as NeurIPS ICML ACL EMNLP or ICLR.
For information about PTO see Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sams Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelors degrees including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition books and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility see . Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed there are no minimum qualifications. Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed there are no preferred qualifications.Minimum Qualifications...
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Primary Location...
10500 Ne 8Th St Bellevue WA 98004 United States of America
Employment Type
Full-Time
