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PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST

Walmart Labs

3.8

based on 2.4k Reviews

12-19 years

Bangalore / Bengaluru

1 vacancy

PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST

Walmart

posted 3mon ago

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Data Science Python Computer Networking Consulting Machine Learning Information Technology

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Job Description

Position Summary... Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What youll do...

Principal Data Scientist - Conversational AI

Career Level: IN6

Location: Bangalore , India

About Team

The Conversational AI team at Walmart builds and deploys core AI assistant experiences across Walmart. The team builds the core AI platform , which powers multiple conversational assistants for shopping, customer care and employee assistan ce across Walmart s US and International markets . With tens of millions of active users across multiple countries these are among the largest vertical AI assistant experiences in the industry. The team is part of a larger Emerging Tech org , which is f ocused on utilising emerging technologies like Conversational AI, Extended Realit y, Spatial awareness, etc to reimagine and build intuitive and immersive experiences for our customers, sellers and associates.

We are looking for a Principal data scientist to lead the next evolution of the AI assistant platform by defining and building highly scalable Generative AI systems and infrastructure. This will be a hands-on technical leadership role which requires expertise at the intersection of machine learning, LLMs, ASR , large-scale distributed systems, and more. Our AI assistants are rapidly incorporating LLMs , agent-based architecture with custom fine-tuned models , and multiple data modalities.

What You Will Do
In this role, as a principal data scien tist you will own the technical roadmap and architecture for multiple initiatives wit hin the Conversational AI platform. The responsibilities include:

Partner with key business stakeholders and be a thought leader in the Conversational AI space for driving the development and planning of POCs and production AI s olution s .

Translate business requirements into strategies, initiatives, and projects. Align these with business strategy and objectives . Drive the execution of the deliverables.

Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge AI solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide.

Lead multiple initiatives within the platform, with focus on efficiency , innovation, and leverage.

Collaborate with the applied scientists, ML engineers, software engineers and product managers to develop next generation of AI assistant experiences.

Be up-to date on industry trends in the latest G enerative AI , Speech processing and AI assistant architect ur e patterns ( e . g . agent chaining, COT, RAG, LLM guardrails etc)

Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to highly skilled and motivated data scientists in the team.

Lead innovation and efficiency through the complete problem - solving cycle , from approach to methods to development and results.

Partner and engage with associates in other regions for delivering the best services to customers around the globe .

Proactively participate in the external community to strengthen Walmarts brand and gain insights into industry practices.

Drive innovation in the charter and publish research in Rank A+ AI conferences like ICML, AAAI, NIPS, ACL, etc.

What You Will Bring

Masters with 12 + years or Ph.D. with 10 + years of relevant experience. Educational qualifications should be Computer Science/Statistics/Mathematics or related area.

Strong track record in a data science tech lead role (5+ years), with deployment of large-scale AI services.

Extensive experience in the design, development, and delivery of AI products with a large customer base, preferably in c onversational AI, speech, vision or machine learning based systems.

Strong experience in machine learning: Gen AI, NLP, Speech processing, Image processing, Classification models, regression models, Forecasting, Unsupervised models, Optimization, Graph ML, Causal inference, Causal ML, Statistical Learning, experimentation Gen-AI.

Deep and demonstrated personal interest in generative AI space including awareness of latest architectural advancements in building generative AI applications.

Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to balance conflicting interests in a complex and fast-paced environment.

Deep experience in simultaneously leading multiple data science initiatives end to end - from translating business needs to analytical asks, leading the process of building solutions and the eventual act of deployment and maintenance .

Thorough understanding of distributed technologies, public cloud technologies, scalable platforms, ML- platforms and Operational Excellence.

Experience working with geographically distributed teams.

Business acumen; combining technical vision with business insights.

R esearch acumen ; with papers published in top tier AI conferences like AAAI, NIPS, ICML, KDD, etc.

Strong Experience with big data platforms - Hadoop (Hive, Map Reduce, HQL, Scala) .

Strong Experience in Python.

About 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 experts 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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 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.

Masters with 12 + years or Ph.D. with 10 + years of relevant experience. Educational qualifications should be Computer Science/Statistics/Mathematics or related area.

Strong track record in a data science tech lead role (5+ years), with deployment of large-scale AI services.

Minimum Qualifications...

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 5 years experience in an analytics related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 3 years experience in an analytics related field. Option 3: 7 years experience in an analytics or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Primary Location... 4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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Anonymous · Data Science & Analytics in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Likes

Although it varies from team to team, in general there is work life balance, and the work culture is good. The usual standard facilities like food at the office, and cab services are available. The additional benefits like mobile phone reimbursement, fitness reimbursement are okay as well. There is a general sense of belonging to the company due to the satisfactory culture.

Salary - Good

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Promotions after IN3/4 are usually slow. Compared to other Tier 1 tech companies, the compensation is generally a bit lesser. The primary goal isn't Engineering Excellence but tech is more of a retail-enabler.

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