Senior Data Scientist

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Walmart Labs Omnichannel Pricing team is looking for a senior data scientist to use statistical and machine learning techniques to develop models and solutions that drive innovative pricing and help Marketplace sellers offer customers great prices. The senior data scientist will work closely with business, product and engineers to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and implement solutions to produce optimal competitive prices for our customers, while scaling to hundreds of millions of products globally.

About the team

Our pricing team is a centralized data science and machine learning team that develops models, solutions, and platforms that drive pricing for products sold by Walmart worldwide, with focus on both competitiveness and long term financial optimality.

Key responsibilities

• Translating Pricing business problems into specific quantitative approaches that can be solved with the vast amount of available data.
• Build data pipeline from multiple sources and extract data insight with data exploration and visualization techniques.
• Partner with business, product and engineers to break down complex pricing challenges, identify key requirements, research, design and build effective and innovative data science solutions, and successfully drive the creation of positive customer and business impact.
• Evaluate the proposed solutions through benchmark tests and online AB tests in production.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, validation and implementation.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Solid knowledge in machine learning, optimization, reinforcement learning, causal inference and recommendation.
• Experience of Demand Forecasting, Pricing and E-commerce Marketplaces.
• Experience of developing robust high-performance models with structured and unstructured data sets using advanced machine learning algorithms and optimization techniques.
• Experience of building large-scale machine learning driven and optimization products.

Qualifications

Option 1- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field.

Option 2- Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 1 years' experience in an analytics related field.

Option 3 - 5 years' experience in an analytics or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Applied experience delivering to business customers using data science, machine learning, and optimization models. Master’s degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or Econometrics.  Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R, Using open source frameworks (for example, Scikit learn, Tensorflow, Torch)

Minimum Qualifications...

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

Option 1- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2- Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 1 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3 - 5 years' experience in an analytics or related field.
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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...

860 W CALIFORNIA AVENUE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-0000, United States of America