Job Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Position Summary… What you’ll do…
Staff Data Scientist
Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you’ll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com
About Walmart Global Tech Org
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 is what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We are 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 2.2 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.
About The Team
At Walmart’s Emerging Tech Cortex AI team, we work on cutting edge Deep learning algorithms and Machine learning architectures for next generation store experiences. We are building innovative solutions using computer vision, multimodal learning and natural language understanding to make inferences on text, image and video data that drive immediate business impact. We are looking for Applied Scientists and researchers with algorithms, programming and/or systems background.
Responsibilities:
- Process large scale Walmart datasets using distributed cloud computing technologies
- Research, build and maintain Machine learning and Deep learning models, pipelines and services with focus on performance, latency, throughput, and scalability.
- Collaborate with product and engineering to drive system integrations and product ionization aspects of the technology.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Computer Science with specialization in computer vision and/or machine learning or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience with machine learning algorithms and tools (e.g., TensorFlow, Pytorch, JAX), artificial intelligence, deep learning, computer vision, multimodal learning and/or natural language processing.
- Experience in C++ and/or Python.
- Experience in developing ML/Deep Learning models for computer vision.
- Experience with publishing at conferences/journals in Machine learning/Computer Vision
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the following programming Languages: Java, Python, Bash, Spark (SQL, Streaming), Hadoop Map-Reduce experience. Build Manager (Maven), Distributed Version Control (GIT), Continuous Integration (Jenkins) experience.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience in launching Machine Learning models in products and building production pipelines/services.
- Experience with standard ML frameworks and ramp up on new ones as needed.
- Experience leading an impactful project on one of the following topics: object detection and tracking, large scale image classification, metric learning, text understanding from images, multimodal embeddings for visual search, video activity detection and recognition.
- Industry experience in the field of computer vision and machine learning.
- Few-shot learning, transfer learning, unsupervised and semi-supervised methods, active learning, weakly supervised auto labeling, semantic search index.
- Experience with influencing or technology leading an applied research project.
Live our Values
Culture Champion
- Models the Walmart values to foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; and supports Walmart’s commitment to communities, social justice, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability; maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance.
Servant Leadership
- Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
Embrace Change
Curiosity & Courage
- Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
Digital Transformation & Change
- Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.
Deliver for the Customer
Customer Focus
- Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
Strategic Thinking
- Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy.
Focus on our Associates
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Identifies, attracts, and retains diverse and inclusive team members; builds a high-performing team; embraces diversity in all its forms; and actively supports diversity goal programs.
Collaboration & Influence
- Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.
Talent Management
- Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
Minimum Qualifications…
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no 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.
Data science, machine learning, optimization models, PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R, Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch) Primary Location… 680 WEST CALIFORNIA AVENUE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-4834, United States of America
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