Join Walmart eCommerce: Senior Data Scientist (NLP/CV) - Native French/Spanish Speaker
At Walmart eCommerce, we strive to connect our customers with the right products at the best prices. As part of the Fortune #1 enterprise, your contributions will reach millions who visit our online marketplace daily. Our diverse customer base includes variations in language, cuisine, geo-location, and terminology, and we aim to serve them all equally well. For instance, the US has the second-largest community of Spanish speakers, using more than 10 different terms for "popcorn"! If you are passionate about leveraging AI to build efficient machine learning (ML) solutions that cater to millions of customers, look no further—our team is the perfect place for you.
Role Overview
As a Senior Data Scientist focusing on NLP and CV, you will play an instrumental role in our AI advancements:
Your Impact
- Analyze, design, implement, and evaluate ML systems for Machine Translation, Localization, Contextualization, and Personalization.
- Contribute to research paths that achieve the highest accuracy and quality in NLP tasks.
- Expand the reach of ML technologies for multilingual and localization applications.
- Collaborate with product managers and business teams to define and solve business problems using data-driven and ML-based solutions.
What You Bring to the Team
Your proactive quest for perfection in AI systems is invaluable, and you:
- Are proficient in Spanish, English, and Python.
- Hold a PhD or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Machine Learning, ideally with an NLP focus.
- Obsess over the accuracy, quality, impact, and efficiency of ML systems.
- Enjoy the challenge of handling large data volumes.
- Can leverage Transformers and LLMS to solve sequential tasks like NMT.
- Have hands-on ML experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or specialized tools like MarianNMT or openNMT.
- Possess end-to-end ML experience, from vision and research through PoC, production, and launch.
About Walmart Global Tech
We are a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists, and service professionals within Walmart, the world's largest retailer. Our innovations improve the experience of our customers and our 2.2 million associates. Being human-led is our true disruption.
Benefits and Compensation
At Walmart, we offer:
- Competitive pay with performance-based bonuses
- Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Financial benefits such as 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance
- Paid time off, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave
- Other benefits including short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, and adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
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Live Better U
Walmart’s education benefit program covers tuition, books, and fees for full-time and part-time associates, offering programs from high school completion to bachelor’s degrees and short-form certificates. Eligibility requirements apply. For more information, see .
Compensation Details
The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00-$180,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses and potential stock options for certain positions.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 3 years of analytics experience, OR
- Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 1 year of analytics experience, OR
- 5 years of experience in an analytics or related field.
Preferred Qualifications
