Senior Data Scientist

Walmart

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Nov 11, 2026

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About Walmart

Walmart Inc. is the world''s largest retailer by revenue, operating a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, as well as a growing e-commerce presence through Walmart.com. Industry: General Merchandise & Grocery Retail

Walmart currently has 990 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Data Scientist

The Senior Data Scientist joins a project team to provide analytical support for Walmart eCommerce. This role involves developing custom data models, building complex datasets from internal and external sources, and conducting advanced statistical analysis to determine trends. Key responsibilities include building learning systems to filter continuous data flows, training algorithms for future data sets, and researching industry best practices. The position requires proficiency in MySQL, Hadoop, Weka, R, Matlab, and ILog, alongside tools like PowerBI, Tableau, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Spark, and PySpark. Candidates must possess experience in AI model pre-training using PyTorch, DeepSpeed, and Hugging Face, as well as NLP, Computer Vision, and distributed data processing in Hive and BigQuery. The work focuses on optimizing search models and information retrieval.

What does a Data Scientist earn in California?

Median $214500 from 118 postings across 27 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop custom data models and algorithms to drive innovative business solutions.
  • Build complex datasets from multiple internal and external sources for predictive modeling.
  • Conduct advanced statistical analysis to identify trends and significant data relationships.
  • Train, validate, and scale machine learning algorithms for large-scale data sets.
  • Implement AI model pre-training, fine-tuning, and human alignment techniques like RLHF.
  • Build and optimize computer vision and natural language processing pipelines.
  • Manage distributed data processing and query optimization in SQL, NoSQL, Hive, and BigQuery.
  • Evaluate model performance using statistical indexes and conduct A/B testing.

What we're looking for

  • Master’s degree in a quantitative field and 1 year of analytics experience, or a Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of analytics experience.
  • Experience in scalable data analytics, statistical modeling, data visualization, and feature engineering using PowerBI, Tableau, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Spark, and PySpark.
  • Experience in AI Model Pre-training, including distributed training pipelines, data curation, and optimizing architectures using PyTorch, DeepSpeed, and Hugging Face.
  • Experience in AI Model Post-training and Human Alignment, including supervised fine-tuning (SFT), RLHF, and Transfer Learning.
  • Experience with Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and NLP using TensorFlow, BERT, RoBERTa, and Transformer architectures.
  • Experience with Distributed Data Processing and large-scale data engineering in SQL/NoSQL environments, including Hive and BigQuery.
  • Experience with Information Retrieval, including Vector Embeddings, Cosine Similarity, and FAISS for semantic search.
  • Experience with cloud-based model training in Azure (ML Studio) and GCP (Vertex AI), and version control using Git, GitHub, and CI/CD.

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