Data Scientist

Position Summary

Walmart Marketplace is a key part of e-commerce  is a gateway for Third-Party Sellers to manage their operations, such as onboarding, catalogs, order fulfillment, global opportunities, and return & refund management. We are responsible for providing the best in-class marketplace experience for our sellers and customers through the design, development, and operations of highly scalable systems. The data scientist role will be part of the data science team and will play a key role working along with others within the Marketplace engineering organization, product managers and business stakeholders to build Machine Learning products.

• Research and implement state-of-the-art machine learning techniques, including deep learning, reinforcement learning, and NLP.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders to align AI solutions with Walmart’s business objectives.
• Design and optimize ML pipelines, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and real-time processing capabilities.
• Build and deploy end-to-end models, balancing accuracy, computational efficiency, and business impact.
• Explore and integrate the latest AI advancements, ensuring Walmart remains a leader in AI-driven delivery solutions.

• Ph.D. or equivalent advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience deploying ML models in production, preferably in high-scale environments.
• Strong programming skills in Python (and optionally Java, C, C++).
• Extensive experience in machine learning, reinforcement learning, GenAI, LLMs, and NLP.
• Experience with big data platforms (Spark/Hive) and cloud computing (GCP/Azure).
• Hands-on experience with Git, SQL and relational databases, data warehouse.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and inspire cross-functional teams.

• Prior experience in Supply Chain Data Science.
• Hands-on experience in Network optimization.
• Distributed computing framework experience such as Spark.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices (WCAG 2.2 AA).

• Competitive pay with performance-based bonus awards.
• Health benefits including medical, vision and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off and paid parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.

Annual salary range: $ – $. Additional compensation may include annual or quarterly performance bonuses and stock options.

815 Eleventh Ave, Sunnyvale, CA , United States of America.