Senior Data Scientist — AI Strategy & Personalization

Walmart; United States; On-site; USD 169,000 - 338,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits including medical, eye

401(k), stock purchase

Paid time off including PTO

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Distinguished Data Scientist to lead multi-year AI research for Search and Personalization from Sunnyvale, CA. You will influence product vision, engineering architecture, and executives through strategy, publications, and patents.

You will shape the direction across the company, partnering with senior leaders to align AI initiatives with business goals and drive transformative impact at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, CS, IT or related field with 6 years analytics experience.
• Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, CS, IT or related field with 4 years analytics experience.
• PhD in CS, ML, Statistics or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set the multi-year AI research and technical strategy for Search and Personalization.
• Pioneer novel approaches to retrieval, ranking, personalization, and generative discovery.
• Define Walmart’s position on emerging AI capabilities and translate into concrete product investments.
• Influence roadmap and architecture at VP/SVP level, aligning AI strategy with business outcomes.

Skills

Search/Personalization at scale

Deep learning

Transformer architectures

Generative AI

Python

Spark

Scala

R

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics/Economics/Analytics/Mathematics/CS/IT

Master’s degree in Statistics/Economics/Analytics/Mathematics/CS/IT

PhD in CS/ML/Statistics

Tools

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Python

Spark

Scala

R

Job description

Walmart is seeking a Distinguished Data Scientist to lead multi-year AI research for Search and Personalization from Sunnyvale, CA. You will influence product vision, engineering architecture, and executives through strategy, publications, and patents.

You will shape the direction across the company, partnering with senior leaders to align AI initiatives with business goals and drive transformative impact at scale.