Staff, Data Scientist
IN KA BANGALORE Home Office Building 10, India
Walmart
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The role is for Staff Datascientist in Search datascience team based out of Bangalore.What you'll do...
About Team:
Our Search datascience team is building a world class search system for Walmart e-comm customers. We use cutting edge machine learning, data mining and optimization algorithms to ingest, model, and analyze Walmart’s proprietary online and in-store data, encompassing 95% of American households. Importantly, we build smart data systems that deliver relevant search results and experiences that connect our customers with the brands and products they love.
What you will do:
As a Staff Data scientist, Search for Walmart Global Tech, you’ll have the opportunity to
Apply and/or develop ML solutions to develop efficient and scalable models at Walmart scale.
Play a key role to solve complex problems, pivotal to Walmart’s business and drive actionable insights from terabytes of data.
Leverage data science tools and techniques, keeping abreast with the latest in the community to solve problems for Walmart.
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.
Develop PoC, present lucidly to the business and evolve the solutions.
Take forward the solutions into Pipelines/APIs as needed by the business.
Research, learn/disseminate & adapt new technologies to solve problems & improve upon existing solutions.
Adopt Wal-Mart’s quality standards and develop and recommend process standards and best practices across the retail industry.
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.
Integrate data science solutions into current business processes.
Develop and recommend process standards and best practices in Machine Learning as applicable to the retail industry.
Mentor peers and junior members and handle multiple projects at the same time.
Peer review and publish work in top tier ML/AI conferences such as NIPS, ICML, AAAI and COLT
Participate and speak at various external forums such as research conferences and technical summits.
Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
What you will bring:
PhD with > 6 years of experience / master’s degree with > 8 years of experience / bachelor's degree with > 9 years of experience. Educational qualifications should be preferably in STEM. Experience should be relevant to the role.
Experience in analysing complex problems and translating them to data science algorithms with due attention to computational efficiency and testing at scale.
Expertise in machine learning, supervised and unsupervised: Time Series Forecasting, latest technique in NLP Deep Learning Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning
Experience in statistical learning: Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics, Web Analytics, Parametric and Non-parametric models, Regression, Time Series, Dynamic / Causal Model, Statistical Learning, Guided Decisions, Topic Modelling
Experience working with big data - identifying trends, patterns, and outliers in large volumes of data.
Worked with at least one mainstream machine learning framework such as caffe, convNet, Tensor Flow and Torch
Experience with SQL, relational databases and data warehouse
Experience with big data platforms - Hadoop(Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, HQL) / Spark / H20
Domain Knowledge : Search, Recommendation Engine
Experience with multiple stakeholder management, data based story-telling, mentoring peers and juniors, multiple project handling at the same time.
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: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 4 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3: 6 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...
4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: APIs Big Data Caffe Computer Science Data Mining Data warehouse Deep Learning Economics Engineering Hadoop ICML Machine Learning Map Reduce Mathematics NLP PhD Pipelines RDBMS Reinforcement Learning Research Spark SQL Statistics STEM TensorFlow Testing
Perks/benefits: Career development Conferences Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Parental leave
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