Senior Data Scientist

Walmart

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Hybrid
Location
Bellevue, WABentonville, AR
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145 days ago
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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

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TL;DR · Senior Data Scientist

JOB TITLE: (USA) Senior, Data Scientist The Senior, Data Scientist joins the Marketplace Tech team to power a two-sided platform connecting customers with third-party sellers. You will turn complex marketplace data into actionable insights and production-ready models to improve seller success, customer experience, trust, and safety. Day-to-day responsibilities include developing advanced statistical and machine learning algorithms, gathering and synthesizing large analytics datasets, and identifying trends or discrepancies in big data. You will build and train models for future replication while communicating clear recommendations to business partners. Required skills include Python, SQL, and big data platforms like Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, HQL, and Spark. You must possess expertise in supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, Computer Vision, NLP, and Gen AI. The role focuses on solving retail marketplace growth and data validity problems.

What does a Data Scientist earn in Washington?

Median $212000 from 33 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop advanced statistical models, machine learning algorithms, and computational algorithms to drive retail division insights.
  • Gather and assess data validity to synthesize large analytics datasets for specific project goals.
  • Utilize big data analytics to identify trends, patterns, and discrepancies within large volumes of data.
  • Build and train replicable statistical models and machine learning algorithms for future project use.
  • Define success metrics and run experiments to improve seller success and customer experience.
  • Communicate data-driven recommendations to business partners to influence future strategic plans.
  • Identify and determine additional data requirements needed to support complex business insights.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 3 years of analytics experience, a Master’s degree with 1 year of experience, or 5 years of experience.
  • Very good knowledge of the foundations of machine learning and statistics.
  • Experience in analyzing complex problems and translating them into data science algorithms.
  • Experience in machine learning, including supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning.
  • Hands-on experience in Computer Vision, NLP, and Gen AI/Agentic AI.
  • Strong experience in Python with excellent knowledge of Data Structures.
  • Strong experience with big data platforms including Hadoop (Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, HQL, Scala, Spark).
  • Experience with SQL, relational databases, Git, and open source frameworks (preferred); experience in ecommerce, R, Julia, or Kaggle (preferred).

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