Director, Data Science – Gen AI-based Content Generation
Walmart
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Sunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $169,000 - $338,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead and grow a high-performing data science team of ~12+ scientists, including hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction.
- Develop multi-modal models for content generation (e.g., imagery, video, 3D assets) and content intelligence (e.g., segmentation, object detection, video analysis, spatial awareness, and keypoint detection).
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and Business teams to translate model capabilities into scalable user experiences.
- Set evaluation and experimentation frameworks to ensure model quality across realism, accuracy, latency, and downstream usability.
- Own the scientific strategy and influence the broader product and platform roadmaps through clear technical direction.
- Design and implement hybrid model systems combining proprietary development with open-source tools and third-party APIs.
- Lead external research engagements and vendor partnerships, with strong accountability for quality, scalability, and alignment with Walmart’s standards.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data science or applied AI, with a focus on computer vision, multi-modal modeling, or generative AI.
- 5+ years leading technical teams delivering production AI systems.
- Proven expertise in multi-modal LLMs, diffusion models, 3D representation learning, or spatial/keypoint modeling.
- Strong track record of translating models into customer-impacting features in real-time systems.
- Experience with model evaluation frameworks, experimentation pipelines, and ML system design.
- Excellent communication, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred: Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
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
data scienceapplied AIcomputer visionmulti-modal modelinggenerative AImulti-modal LLMsdiffusion models3D representation learningspatial modelingkeypoint modeling
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationdecision-makingcross-functional collaboration
Certifications
Ph.D. in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Machine Learning