
Senior Data Scientist – Conversational AI
Walmart
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Bentonville • United States
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Salary
💰 $117,000 - $234,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Work on Walmart's core A.I. conversational platform, assisting in the development of personal assistants for customers.
- Build and design Natural Language Understanding (NLU) services.
- Collaborate with various teams to improve capabilities and user experiences through multi-modal interactions.
- Create demos, proof of concepts, white papers, and blogs as part of the role.
Requirements
- Master's degree or certification in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or any other related field.
- Extensive experience with NLU/NLP, more recent deep ML models (e.g., Transformers, BERT, Llama, GPTs, Gemini) and safe fine-tuning of these.
- Extensive experience in designing, developing and deploying end-to-end Generative AI systems using transformer-based LLM architectures (both open source and close source).
- Experience with Python; solid knowledge SQL.
- Hands on experience with classical ML models, test/train/evaluation metrics, key parameters/techniques that affect model performance.
- Understanding of relevant statistical measures such as confidence intervals, significance of error measurements, development and evaluation data sets.
- Experience analyzing conversational data to identify patterns and conducting error/deviation analysis; passion for fixing issues in the data and finding the optimal representation.
- A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate, and optimize models and products.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
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. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Natural Language UnderstandingNatural Language ProcessingMachine LearningDeep LearningTransformersBERTLlamaGPTGenerative AIPython
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingcreativityattention to detailcontinuous improvementpassion for optimization
Certifications
Master's degree in Machine LearningMaster's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in EngineeringMaster's degree in MathematicsMaster's degree in Statistics