(IND) STAFF, DATA SCIENTIST (MLE)
Walmart Global Tech · Posted Nov 2
Software development, cloud infrastructure, and retail technology services for Walmart
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About the role
Walmart Marketplace builds reusable technologies for acquiring customers, onboarding and empowering merchants, optimizing tariffs and assortment, and creating omnichannel personalized experiences across in-store, mobile app and websites. The team designs and operates large-scale distributed systems using web/mobile, cloud, big data and AI/ML. This Staff Machine Learning Engineer role builds scalable end-to-end data science solutions, owns the MLOps lifecycle, and deploys ML and statistical models for data products.
What you will do
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer is responsible for building scalable end-to-end data science solutions for our data products.
- Work closely with data engineers and data analysts to help build ML- and statistics-driven data quality and continuous data monitoring workflows
- Solve business problems by scaling advanced Machine Learning algorithms and complex statistical models on large volumes of data
- Own the MLOps lifecycle, from data monitoring to refactoring data science code to building robust model monitoring workflows for model lifecycle management
- Demonstrate strong thought-leadership and consult with product and business stakeholders to build, scale and deploy holistic machine learning solutions after successful prototyping.
- Follow industry best practices, stay up to date with and extend the state of the art in machine learning research and practice and drive innovation
- Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Knowledge of the foundations of machine learning and statistics
- Experience with web service standards and related patterns (REST, gRPC)
- Experienced in architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind
- Familiar with distributed in-memory computing technologies
- Solid experience working with state-of-the-art supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms on real-world problems
- Strong Python coding and package development skills
- Experience with Big Data and analytics in general leveraging technologies like Hadoop, Spark, and MapReduce; Ability to work in a big data ecosystem - expert in SQL/Hive and ability to work with Spark.
- Able to refactor data science code and has collaborated with data scientists in developing ML solutions.
- Experience playing the role of full-stack data scientist and taking solutions to production.
- Experience developing proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real-time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.
- Educational qualifications should be preferably in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or a related area.
- Good effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear & concise way, to different audiences. A team player with good work ethics .
- Machine Learning, Big Data Skills, Python, R
Preferred qualifications
- Good to have experience in areas such as computer vision, forecasting, real-time analytics, conversational AI assistants
Benefits and support
- incentive awards for performance
- maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- health benefits
About Walmart Global Tech
Walmart Global Tech is the technological powerhouse and engineering arm of Walmart Inc., responsible for building and managing foundational technologies, cloud infrastructure, and software systems. The organization powers global retail operations across Walmart U.S., Sam's Club, and Walmart International, delivering customer experiences and enterprise services worldwide. Operating across multiple global hubs, it unites engineering, data science, product design, and artificial intelligence to digitally transform retail.
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Company size
- 25000+ employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President, AI Acceleration, Product and Design
Senior Vice President and Tech Operating Partner, Walmart International
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