Data Scientist III
Walmart

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What you'll do at

What you'll do...

Position: Data Scientist III

Job Location: 640 W. California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086

Duties: Analyze large data sets to develop multiple custom machine learning and natural language processing models, algorithms, and software systems to drive innovative business solutions. Work on large project teams to provide analytical support, technical direction, and guidance to an assigned area for large projects (for example, search relevance, query understanding, and customer insights) within Walmart eCommerce. Build large data sets from multiple sources to develop algorithms for predicting future data characteristics. Responsible for testing, validating, and applying algorithms to large data sets. Test the algorithms so they can be applied to future data sets and provide the appropriate search results. Research new trends in the industry and utilize up-to-date technology (for example, HBase, MapReduce, Cassandra, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Transformers, and BERT) and analytical skills to support assigned projects. Validate models using A/B testing and deploy them to production.

Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or related field; OR Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or related field and 2 years of experience in an analytics or related field.

Skills required: Experience coding in one of the following object-oriented programming languages: Python, R, or Java. Experience with analysis and development of machine learning models in Python or R. Experience with extraction, cleaning, and processing of large datasets present in relational databases using SQL and Spark. Experience performing exploratory data analysis to determine relevant features and signals, and accordingly prepare datasets for modeling. Experience analyzing and implementing scalable and efficient algorithms to solve fundamental problems in computer science and Machine Learning. Experience evaluating model performance using metrics including recall, precision, F1 score, and AUC. Experience tracking project changes using version control software including Git and SVN. Experience utilizing state-of-the-art mathematical and statistical techniques. Employer will accept any amount of graduate coursework, graduate research experience or professional experience with the required skills.

Salary Range: $138,911/year to $234,000/year. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location) and Stock equity incentives.

Benefits: At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Our financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com.

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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About Walmart

At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability-and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries-all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?

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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

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