Principal, Data Scientist
- Walmart
- 12 - 15 years
- Bengaluru
- 28 days ago
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Job Description
We are looking for a Principal data scientist to lead the next evolution of the AI assistant platform by defining and building highly scalable Generative AI systems and infrastructure. This will be a hands-on technical leadership role which requires expertise at the intersection of machine learning, LLMs, ASR , large-scale distributed systems, and more. Our AI assistants are rapidly incorporating LLMs , agent-based architecture with custom fine-tuned models , and multiple data modalities.
What You Will Do
In this role, as a principal data scien tist you will own the technical roadmap and architecture for multiple initiatives wit hin the Conversational AI platform.
The responsibilities include:
- Partner with key business stakeholders and be a thought leader in the Conversational AI space for driving the development and planning of POCs and production AI s olution s .
- Translate business requirements into strategies, initiatives, and projects. Align these with business strategy and objectives . Drive the execution of the deliverables.
- Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge AI solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide.
- Lead multiple initiatives within the platform, with focus on efficiency , innovation, and leverage.
- Collaborate with the applied scientists, ML engineers, software engineers and product managers to develop next generation of AI assistant experiences.
- Be up-to date on industry trends in the latest G enerative AI , Speech processing and AI assistant architect ur e patterns ( e . g . agent chaining, COT, RAG, LLM guardrails etc)
- Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to highly skilled and motivated data scientists in the team.
- Lead innovation and efficiency through the complete problem - solving cycle , from approach to methods to development and results.
- Partner and engage with associates in other regions for delivering the best services to customers around the globe .
- Proactively participate in the external community to strengthen Walmarts brand and gain insights into industry practices.
- Drive innovation in the charter and publish research in Rank A+ AI conferences like ICML, AAAI, NIPS, ACL, etc
What You Will Bring
- Masters with 12 + years or Ph.D. with 10 + years of relevant experience. Educational qualifications should be Computer Science/Statistics/Mathematics or related area.
- Strong track record in a data science tech lead role (5+ years), with deployment of large-scale AI services.
- Extensive experience in the design, development, and delivery of AI products with a large customer base, preferably in c onversational AI, speech, vision or machine learning based systems.
- Strong experience in machine learning: Gen AI, NLP, Speech processing, Image processing, Classification models, regression models, Forecasting, Unsupervised models, Optimization, Graph ML, Causal inference, Causal ML, Statistical Learning, experimentation & Gen-AI.
- Deep and demonstrated personal interest in generative AI space including awareness of latest architectural advancements in building generative AI applications.
- Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to balance conflicting interests in a complex and fast-paced environment.
- Deep experience in simultaneously leading multiple data science initiatives end to end - from translating business needs to analytical asks, leading the process of building solutions and the eventual act of deployment and maintenance .
- Thorough understanding of distributed technologies, public cloud technologies, scalable platforms, ML- platforms and Operational Excellence.
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
- Business acumen; combining technical vision with business insights.
- R esearch acumen ; with papers published in top tier AI conferences like AAAI, NIPS, ICML, KDD, etc
- Strong Experience with big data platforms - Hadoop (Hive, Map Reduce, HQL, Scala) .
- Strong Experience in Python.
Benefits
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.
Job Classification
Industry: RetailFunctional Area / Department: Data Science & Analytics
Role Category: Data Science & Machine Learning
Role: Data Scientist
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: WalmartLocation(s): Bengaluru
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Keyskills: Networking data science Machine learning Technical leadership SEZ Business strategy Information technology Distribution system Python
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