PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST

Position Summary... About Team
The Conversational AI team at Walmart builds and deploys core AI assistant experiences across Walmart. The team builds the core AI platform, which powers multiple conversational assistants for shopping, customer care and employee assistance across Walmart s US and International markets. With tens of millions of active users across multiple countries these are among the largest vertical AI assistant experiences in the industry. The team is part of a larger Emerging Tech org, which is focussed on utilising emerging technologies like Conversational AI, Extended Reality, Spatial awareness, etc to reimagine and build intuitive and immersive experiences for our customers, sellers and associates. We are looking for a Principal data scientist to lead the next evolution of the AI assistant platform by defining and building highly scalable Generative AI systems and infrastructure. This will be a hands-on technical leadership role which requires expertise at the intersection of machine learning, LLMs, ASR, large-scale distributed systems, and more. Our AI assistants are rapidly incorporating LLMs, agent-based architecture with custom fine-tuned models, and multiple data modalities. Minimum Qualifications... Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 5 years experience in an analytics related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 3 years experience in an analytics related field. Option 3: 7 years experience in an analytics or related field. Preferred Qualifications... Primary Location...