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Senior – Data Scientist

Senior – Data Scientist

CompanyWalmart
LocationSunnyvale, CA, USA
Salary$117000 – $234000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesMaster’s, PhD
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

Requirements

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
  • A strong foundation in machine learning and NLP, with a passion for building accurate, impactful, and efficient ML systems.
  • Experience with sequence-to-sequence modeling using Transformers or LLMs, ideally for multilingual and/or speech applications.
  • Proficiency with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Fluency in English and in either Hindi or Mandarin.
  • Enthusiasm to contribute across the ML lifecycle, from research and prototyping to experimentation and deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and evaluate machine learning systems for translation, localization, contextualization and personalization.
  • Contribute to applied research in NLP and multilingual AI, with opportunities to publish or patent your work.
  • Build scalable data pipelines for real-time and batch multilingual experience use-cases.
  • Partner with product and business stakeholders to understand business needs and formulate concrete, data-driven solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Data science, machine learning, optimization models.
  • Master’s degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics.
  • Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R.
  • Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch).
  • Knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.