Principal Data Scientist – Gen AI Vision
Walmart
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Sunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $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
- 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 communicate 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
- 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 disciplines that expose 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
- 401(k) match
- Stock purchase plan
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Multiple health plans
- Incentive awards for performance
- Health insurance
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Company-paid life insurance
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
- Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
deep learninggenerative modelsmulti-modal modelstext generationimage generationvideo generationlarge deep-learning model fine-tuningprompt engineeringagentic AI designdata science
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingorganizational skills
Certifications
PhD in computer sciencePhD in statisticsPhD in data sciencePhD in mathematics