Staff Data Scientist - ML/NLP for Scalable E-commerce Search

Walmart; Hoboken (NJ); On-site; USD 132,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Stock purchase

Paid time off

Job summary

Staff Data Scientist at Walmart in Hoboken, NJ will leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to transform data into actionable insights. You’ll design, validate, and deploy predictive models, create visualizations, and communicate results to influence business outcomes and optimize operations.

The role focuses on data sourcing, model development, and cross‑functional collaboration to improve the customer journey and backend systems across e‑commerce.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field with 2–4+ years analytics experience, or 6 years experience
• Strong expertise in predictive analytics and ML, with statistical hypothesis testing
• Experience deploying models to production and validating performance

Responsibilities

• Identify and source data across multiple domains, ensuring data quality and fitness for purpose
• Develop data strategies aligned with business objectives, focusing on data management, accessibility, and scalability
• Design, validate, and tune predictive models using advanced statistical and machine learning techniques
• Create clear and impactful data visualizations tailored to stakeholder needs
• Translate business requirements into analytical solutions, providing actionable insights
• Deploy and monitor models in production, ensuring performance and scalability
• Write, test, and document code to support data science initiatives

Skills

Predictive analytics

Machine learning

Statistical testing

Python

Data visualization

Data strategy

Model deployment

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

Master's degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

Tools

Python

Spark

Scala

R

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

Job description

Staff Data Scientist at Walmart in Hoboken, NJ will leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to transform data into actionable insights. You’ll design, validate, and deploy predictive models, create visualizations, and communicate results to influence business outcomes and optimize operations.

The role focuses on data sourcing, model development, and cross‑functional collaboration to improve the customer journey and backend systems across e‑commerce.