Walmart

Staff Data Scientist – Gen AI Vision

Walmart

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Sunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $143,000 - $286,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudNumpyOpen SourcePandasPythonPyTorch

About the role

  • Develop and apply state-of-the-art deep learning based generative models and multi-modal models such as text generation, image generation, video generation and capturing multimodal data relationships etc.
  • Proficient in evaluating trade-offs between open source vs Cloud APIs for multimodal Gen AI in terms of performance, cost efficiencies.
  • Work with large scale data and curate in house domain datasets from scratch.
  • 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 communicating model results and insights to business teams.
  • Maintain world-class academic credentials through patent applications, publications, conference presentations, and external collaboration and service to the research community.

Requirements

  • Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 4 years' experience in an analytics related field.
  • Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years' experience in an analytics related field.
  • 6 years' experience in an analytics or related field.
  • Expertise in working with deep-learning based generative/multi-modal models or similar research experience with deep-learning/AI.
  • Experience in multimodal Generative Models for Text generation, Image generation, Audio and Video generation.
  • Experience in VLMs for Image classification, object detection, scene/semantic segmentation, keypoint detection, CLIP/similar for similarity.
  • Experience in models for multimodal synthetic data generation.
  • Experience with large deep-learning model fine-tuning and deployment.
  • Experience with prompt engineering and agentic AI design.
  • Solid understanding of Python and expertise in working with data science related packages (Numpy, Pandas, Pytorch etc.).
  • Advanced degree in computer science, statistics, data science, mathematics or other discipline (e.g., electrical engineering, economics, psychology) that exposes scientific methods of research and analysis. PhD degree is a plus.
  • Publications in top ML/AI/NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, ACL, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, KDD etc.) are a plus.
Benefits
  • 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.
  • 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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Hard skills
deep learninggenerative modelsmulti-modal modelstext generationimage generationvideo generationPythonNumpyPandasPytorch
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingorganizational skills
Certifications
Bachelors degreeMasters degreePhD degree