Staff Data Scientist, Conversational AI
Walmart
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Sunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $143,000 - $286,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Develop and customize state-of-the-art deep learning based generative models and multimodal models to support conversational customer shopping experience.
- Utilize cutting-edge machine learning/statistical/optimization techniques to deliver solutions for projects in the domain of conversational AI.
- Build, validate, test and deploy language models combined with different machine learning techniques to explain or predict behavior and solve a variety of business and engineering problems.
- Mine massive data, derive business insights, and propose interesting modeling projects that have the potential to have high business impact.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to define interfaces, understanding and resolving dependencies.
- Standardize and build scalable and highly available systems that follow operational best practices.
- Develop visuals and reports to efficiently communicate model results and insights to business teams.
Requirements
- Rich experience with NLP and language models (e.g., Transformers, BERT, Llama, GPTs, Gemini), including but not limited to prompt engineering, fine-tuning and efficient deployment.
- Experience with agentic system development, including but not limited to static/agentic flow design, agentic system evaluation.
- Solid programming skills of Python and familiar with challenges working with large data.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- PhD degree in computer science, statistics, data science, mathematics or other discipline that exposes scientific methods of research and analysis.
- Strong academic and publication record is required (NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, ACL, ICLR, AAAI, KDD etc.).
Benefits
- Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Stock purchase plan.
- Paid maternity and parental leave.
- PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
deep learninggenerative modelsmultimodal modelsmachine learningNLPlanguage modelsPythonprompt engineeringfine-tuningdata mining
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical thinking
Certifications
PhD in computer sciencePhD in statisticsPhD in data sciencePhD in mathematics