Senior, Data Scientist

Reference: R-2674185

Posted:

Location:

SUNNYVALE, CA, United States; BELLEVUE, WASalary: $117000 - $234000/year

Type:
Full time / Regular/Permanent Company:
Walmart Business Segment:
Home Office As a Senior Data Scientist at Walmart, you will leverage advanced analytical techniques and domain expertise to identify, develop, and deploy data-driven solutions that support strategic business objectives. This role involves extracting and validating data from multiple sources, building scalable models, and delivering actionable insights through effective visualization and communication. You will collaborate across functions to translate complex business challenges into innovative data strategies, mentor team members, and ensure alignment with data governance and quality standards, driving measurable impact and continuous improvement within the organization.

About the team:

We are looking for a passionate, creative full stack Senior Data Scientist to join Walmart's fraud detection team. You will have the unique opportunity to work with massive business and social data generated by Walmart Inc.'s unparalleled online and offline commerce. You will be responsible to use cutting-edge deep learning, machine learning, data mining, and anomaly detection techniques to design and prototype robust, scalable predictive models and analytics solutions.

You will be a part of a cross-functional team of Data Scientists, Engineers, Product managers, and Business professionals that sit between Data Science, Big data, IT infrastructure, and business operations. What you'll do:

Design, build and implement predictive models with high-dimensional, fast moving real time datasets.

Own fraud/abuse risks in a product or segment of a product, be a strategic partner to product development teams, sharing insights and providing recommendations through effective communication and storytelling with data.

Use ML/AI, deep learning and data mining techniques to develop robust models for anomaly detection such as bot detection.

Build data visualizations and interactive dashboards for monitoring and sharing business insights internally and externally.

Unique opportunities in research and US patent filings to address new fraud issues, develop new tools or automate processes. What you'll bring:

Technical expertise in machine learning, statistical analytical and story telling

Proficient in machine learning and data mining packages in Python.

Experience working with large data sets and distributed computing tools (GCP/Big Query experience preferred).Programming skills in one of the following languages:
Java, or JavaScript on a UNIX or Linux platform

Production deployment experiences preferred GenAI/Agentic AI experiences preferred  At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. 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, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see . Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.

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