(Ind) Senior, Data Scientist

Position Summary…

Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities. Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans; using the Open Door Policy; and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.

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 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. 

 

 

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 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. 

 

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- 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