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 you'll do...
Principal Data Scientist – Conversational AI
Location: Bangalore, India
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 assistance 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 focused on utilising emerging technologies like Conversational AI, Extended Reality, 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.
You can see more about the work our team does here in these articles: https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/tagged/voice-assistant
What You Will Do
In this role, as a principal data scientist you will own the technical roadmap and architecture for multiple initiatives within the Conversational AI platform. The responsibilities include:
Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge AI solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide.
Be up-to date on industry trends in the latest Generative AI, Speech processing and AI assistant architecture patterns (e.g. agent chaining, COT, RAG, LLM guardrails etc)
Drive innovation in the charter and publish research in Rank A+ AI conferences like ICML, AAAI, NIPS, ACL, etc.
Extensive experience in the design, development, and delivery of AI products with a large customer base, preferably in conversational 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.
Thorough understanding of distributed technologies, public cloud technologies, scalable platforms, ML- platforms and Operational Excellence.
Research acumen; with papers published in top tier AI conferences like AAAI, NIPS, ICML, KDD, etc.
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.
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.
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.
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 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...
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
