(IND) STAFF, DATA SCIENTIST

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Location: Bangalore

Job Summary

Walmart is a multi-national people led tech powered omnichannel retailer with over 2.2M associates.

Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Data Scientist at IDC for the Corporate Affairs Technology team.  As a specialist in GenAI and Agentic AI, you will lead the development and deployment of AI/ML driven products; playing a tech lead role in a team of Data scientists and ML engineers and collaborate with product leaders to drive innovation.

About Team:

The Enterprise Business Services supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology, Finance and Risk Technologies 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 so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes technology solutions for Corporate Affairs, Transaction & Risk Technology, Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.

What you will do:

We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist who has the passion to develop AI driven intelligent products for the Corporate Affairs domain, with the ability to influence partner teams, data scientists, ML engineers, product managers and software developers. A successful candidate will have an established hands-on data science, AI, ML experience in driving technical products, an entrepreneurial background, and a passion for great customer-centric products.

You would :

• Design, architect, build AI/ML models and systems, and deploy, operate and optimize the solutions 

• Lead development of end-to-end system architecture for GenAI/AI/ML and data intensive applications 

• Mentor a team of data scientists to develop their skills and business understanding 

• 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 and enforce rigorous standards, governance, and best practices, ensuring strict compliance with model and data governance standards.
• Adhere strictly to Walmart’s policies, procedures, mission, values, standards of ethics, and integrity.
• Innovation and Research: Stay at the forefront of technological advancements, conducting research to identify emerging tools and methodologies.  
• Collaborative Communication: Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, promoting a culture of open communication and collaboration. 

What you'll bring:

• You have 10+ 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 can effectively mentor and coach junior data scientists 

• 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 have experience at writing high-performing production-quality code in Python  

• You have experience in working with end-to-end CI/CD pipelines

• You are thorough, meticulous 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.

Ways of Working

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.

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

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