About Team

If you're thinking scale, think bigger and don't stop there. At Walmart Labs Bengaluru, we don't just innovate, we enable transformations across stores and different channels for the Walmart experience. Take a regular day at Walmart Labs and match that with 260 million customers a week, 11,695 stores, under 59 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. That's Walmart Labs Bengaluru for you.

Personalization team at Walmart is dedicated to the mission of knowing our customers better and making it frictionless and faster for them to get what they want while building a trusted partnership with Walmart. We help bring a seamless experience to our customers irrespective of how and where they engage with us - while shopping online and picking groceries at stores. We thrive to provide each customer with a journey tailored to their individual needs, preferences and routines. We operate at the intersection of huge Walmart assortment, millions of customers, thousands of stores and Walmart associates - a multi-layer multi-objective problem space which has a unique impact on Global consumer base and powers assisted AI for our associates.

The Personalization team consists of data scientists, application engineers, big data geeks and product visionaries all working together to design, prototype and build technology-driven products and experiences that will change the future landscape of e-commerce. We are focused on building an intelligent system that will enable 1:1 personalised customer experience, from finding the product to delivering it to the customer. We are building state-of-the-art machine learnt systems using cutting edge technology that has ability to A/B test in fast iterations, use GPU/CPU based online inferencing of deep learnt and traditional models, event driven architecture that serves personalized experience for customers. This will span many markets, business models and form factors, therefore, we are looking for engineers and data scientists who will being not only an abundance of experiences in technologies but an abundant curiosity to innovate.

Also, The data science community at Walmart Labs is active in most of the Hack events, utilizing the petabytes of data at our disposal, to build some of the coolest ideas. All the work we do at Walmart Labs benefits our operations & our associates, helping Customers Save Money to Live Better.

What You'll Do

Apply and/or develop statistical modeling techniques (such as deep neural networks and Bayesian models), optimization methods and other ML techniques.

Develop efficient and scalable models at Walmart scale.

Collaborate with counterparts in business, engineering and science to find impactful solutions to business problems.

Define and/or own the model goodness metrics and track the business impact over time.

Present recommendations from complex analysis to business partners in clear and actionable form, influencing the future plans.

Manage the continuous improvement of data science and machine learning by following industry best practices and staying up-to-date with and extending the state-of-the-art in Machine Learning Research.

Integrate data science solutions into current business processes.

Develop and recommend process standards and best practices in Machine Learning as applicable to the retail industry.

Consult with business stakeholders across stores and e-commerce businesses regarding algorithm-based recommendations and be a thought-leader to develop these into business actions.

Participate and speak at various external forums such as research conferences and technical summits.

Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

What You'll Bring

Bachelor's with > 2 years of relevant experience OR Masters with > 1 years of relevant experience OR PHD in Comp Science/Statistics/Mathematics with >1 years of relevant experience

Experience in machine learning, supervised and unsupervised: NLP, Classification, Data/Text Mining, Multi-modal models, Neural Networks, Deep Learning Algorithms

Embedding generation from training materials, storage and retrieval from Vector Databases, set-up and provisioning of managed LLM gateways, development of Retrieval augmented generation based LLM agents, model selection, prompt engineering and finetuning based on accuracy and user-feedback, monitoring and governance.

Strong Experience in Python, PySpark,Google Cloud platform, model deployment

Strong Experience with big data platforms

About Walmart 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 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.

Walmart's culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their 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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is everyone included. by fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we're able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal opportunity employer

Walmart, inc., is an equal opportunities 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 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:Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years experience in an analytics or related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. Option 3: 4 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...Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India

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