Principal, Data at Sunnyvale, California

Principal Data Scientist

Bentonville, AR: $110,000 - $220,000/yr Sunnyvale, CA: $143,000 - $286,000/yr Regular/ Permanent Salaried

Position Summary: As a Principal Data Scientist for Walmart Global Tech, you'll have the opportunity to drive data-derived insights across a wide range of retail and finance divisions by developing advanced statistical models, machine learning algorithms, and computational algorithms based on business initiatives.

About Team: The data science team at the Enterprise Business Services Pillar at Walmart Global Tech focuses on using the latest research in machine learning, statistics, and optimization to solve business problems. We mine data, distill insights, extract information, build analytical models, deploy machine learning algorithms, and use the latest technology to empower business decision-making.

Your Opportunity: You'll have the opportunity to consult with business stakeholders regarding algorithm-based recommendations and be a thought leader to develop these into business actions. You'll closely partner with the Senior Manager and Director of Data Science to drive data science adoption in the domain. You'll guide data scientists, senior data scientists, and staff data scientists across multiple sub-domains to ensure on-time delivery of ML products.

What You Will Bring: Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. with 10-15 years of relevant experience. Educational qualifications should be in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related area. Minimum 10 years of experience as a data science technical lead. Ability to lead multiple data science projects end-to-end. Deep experience in building data science solutions in areas like fraud prevention, forecasting, shrink and waste reduction, inventory management, recommendation, assortment, and price optimization. Strong experience in machine learning: classification models, regression models, NLP, forecasting, unsupervised models, optimization, graph ML, causal inference, causal ML, statistical learning, experimentation, and Gen-AI.

About Walmart Global Tech: From entry-level to executive positions, Walmart provides limitless opportunities for growth and career development. Walmart started small, with a single discount store and the simple philosophy of selling more for less. Today, we are a growing technology-enabled company founded on the same values as our first store. We establish clear expectations, empower associates to manage their work, and hold ourselves and one another to a high standard. Walmarts scale enables us to have an unmatched reach, with 2.3 million associates worldwide and over 230 million weekly customers. Walmart is reshaping retail by investing in an expanding workforce. While technology is at the heart of our digital transformation, people are the reason we succeed and the force behind our innovations.

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits such as maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more. 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 Belonging unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions while being welcoming of all people. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.