Data Scientist - CV/ML and Data Intelligence

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Working at Sam’s Club means a career without boundaries. There’s always room to grow, to take on another challenge, to roll up your sleeves and contribute, and to find professional rewards for your hard work. Yes, we are a division of the Fortune #1 company, Walmart, Inc. But you’ll quickly find that we’re a company that wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Sam’s Club is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our clubs. Join us and you'll discover why our company is a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life.

As a Data Scientist and part of Sam’s Global Technologies Team, you will be responsible for enhancing Sam’s Club Intelligent Data Insights that support associate and member experiences with the most modern tools and research. You will collaborate with cross-functional software and quality engineers to build best in class technology solutions to tackle complex problems on a massive scale.

What you’ll do:

• Research latest industry trends in software, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Cloud Computing to enhance Sam’s Club technology resources and the experiences for both our associates and members.
• Take a data driven approach and propose solutions that aim at achieving the best in industry performance and experiences.
• Apply machine learning, computer vision, and data fusion tools to tackle big data and create new insights that generate value for the company and its customers.
• Perform POC’s to evaluate and develop new technologies to solve high value issues that weren’t solvable before.

Your Qualifications:

• 2+ years’ experience in Computer Vision and Machine Learning

• 2+ years’ overall agile software development, preferably in one or more of the following areas: AR/VR, surveillance, inventory tracking, autonomous vehicles.

• 1+ years in cloud platform preferably in Azure

• Python, Java, and C++

• Experience with any and all of these frameworks/libraries: PyTorch, OpenCV, Keras, TensorFlow, Cuda, SciPy, NumPy, BoofCV

• Experience with low-powered devices such as development boards: raspberry pi, Arduino, Coral, Jetson, etc. or mobile phones.

• Experience working in small teams

• Demonstrated expertise in architecting and deploying solutions into production.

Now, imagine doing all the above for the world’s largest retailer. That’s the Walmart experience. Intrigued?

You’ll really wow us if…
•    Your ability to rise above group think and see beyond the here and now is matched only by your intellectual curiosity. 
•    You come to the table with a comprehensive knowledge of Robotics as well as modern AI Algorithms.
•    You consider yourself to be a student of the world who thrives in an ever-changing environment that holds within it new challenges and chances to prove your expertise.
•    You level up when you have the opportunity to teach others and empower those around you to excel.

You’ll make an impact by…
•    Effectively translating requirements into project parameters while working with agility from cradle to grave.
•    Helping cross-functional teams to solve for business problems and develop solutions that enable us to redefine a “best-in-class” customer and associate experience.
•    Encouraging the project teams that you oversee to work collaboratively and to aim for insight-driven outcomes. 

Who We Are:

Sam Walton opened the first Sam's Club in 1983 to meet a growing need among customers who wanted to buy merchandise in bulk. Since then, Sam's Club has grown rapidly, operating almost 600 clubs in the US. By offering affordable, wholesale merchandise to members, Sam's Club helps make saving simple for families and small business owners.

Benefits & Perks: 
Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

About the Team:

As a member of the of the Engineering group, you’ll be responsible for evaluating large amounts of data as part of the ongoing effort to create powerful data insights. You’ll operate as a trusted advisor as it relates to efficiencies, best practices, and both selection and integration of new technologies in hardware and software. As a senior member of the team, you’ll be able to say that you work for the world’s largest retailer and contribute to the development to best-in-class methodologies that impacted perception and drastically changed business as we know it.

Equal Opportunity Employer 
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2
years' experience in an analytics or related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science,
Information Technology or related field. Option 3: 4 years' experience in an analytics or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Data science, machine learning, optimization models, Master’s degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R, Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch)

Primary Location...

603 MUNGER AVE STE 400, DALLAS, TX 75202, United States of America