Staff Data Scientist (GEC11903) 1076 views

Position Description

In this role, you will

• Act as a thought leader to identify the right problems to solve for their customers
• Design and implement state of the art Machine Learning approaches
• Work as a tech lead and define the roadmap for yourself and co-workers
• Develop end-to-end ownership of major customer-facing technologies
• Stay up-to-date with the state of the art techniques of Machine Learning, Information Retrieval
• Become an expert either in NLP, Search Ranking or Computer Vision
• Push the boundaries of Machine Learning to benefit the internal and external community
• Be a brand ambassador for @WalmartLabs

Minimum Qualifications

• Ph.D. in computer science or similar field with 3+ years of experience
• Highly proficient in Python or Java
• Extremely hands-on in building Machine Learning products
• Experience in building data products and crunching terabytes of data
• A good portfolio of machine learning projects with a significant impact on the bottom line
• Experience in working as a tech lead
• Blog posts, papers or conference talks showing your involvement in the community

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Deep Learning
• Contributions to open-source ML projects

Company Summary

Additional Preferred Qualifications

The Walmart eCommerce team is rapidly innovating to evolve and define the future state of shopping. As the world’s largest retailer, they are on a mission to help people save money and live better. With the help of some of the brightest minds in technology, merchandising, marketing, supply chain, talent and more, they are reimagining the intersection of digital and physical shopping to help achieve that mission.

Position Summary

The search algorithms team @WalmartLabs is dedicated to the mission of helping millions of customers every day in finding the right products. We are at the forefront of attacking one of the most complex problems of e-commerce. Whenever a user types in a query or browses through product categories on the web site, phone or iPad, their service goes to work. They mine billions of search queries and tens of millions of products to find the most relevant products for their customers. Team members take end-end responsibility in analyzing large amounts of data, creating complex models, improving their accuracy and deploying these models to serve customers.

As part of this team, you’ll solve some of the most fascinating and impactful problems in machine learning, information retrieval, NLP or computer vision problems. The algorithms you develop will champion customer’s need to express their intent and their goal to understand their preferences, implicitly or explicitly across devices and modalities (voice, text, image, etc.). You will develop and deploy machine-learned models, to engage and converse with their customers and to understand their goals and expectations to enable them to make the right purchase decision. Your work will be visible to millions of customers and you will have a direct impact on the goals of the Fortune #1 enterprise. If you speak and think machine learning then they want to talk to you. Come join their team and be part of this exciting journey.

In this role you will

• Act as a thought leader to identify right problems to solve for their customers
• Design and implement state of the art Machine Learning approaches
• Work as a tech lead and define the roadmap for yourself and co-workers
• Develop end-to-end ownership of major customer-facing technologies
• Stay up-to-date with the state of the art techniques of Machine Learning, Information Retrieval
• Become an expert either in NLP, Search Ranking or Computer Vision
• Push the boundaries of Machine Learning to benefit internal and external community
• Be a brand ambassador for @WalmartLabs