Position Summary...

Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas.

What you'll do...

About Team:

Our team is focused on leveraging latest research in generative AI, machine learning (ML), statistics, deep learning, computer vision and optimization to reshape how our customers interacts with our search and making it frictionless for them to get what they want. We help bring a seamless experience irrespective of how and where customers engage with us - while shopping online and picking groceries at stores. We operate at the intersection of huge Walmart assortment, millions of customers, thousands of stores, and Walmart associates - a multi-layer multi-objective problem space which has a unique impact on Global consumer base and powers assisted AI for our associates.

Also, the data science community at Walmart Global Tech is active in most of the Hack events, utilizing the petabytes of data at our disposal, to build some of the coolest ideas. All the work we do at Walmart Labs benefits our operations & our associates, helping Customers Save Money to Live Better.

What you'll do:
As Director Engineering for Omni GenAI team for Walmart Global Tech, you'll have the opportunity to:

•    Build a team to develop statistical modeling techniques (such as deep neural networks and Bayesian models), optimization methods and other ML techniques.
•    Develop efficient and scalable models at Walmart scale.
•    Collaborate with counterparts in business, engineering, and science to find impactful solutions to business problems.
•    Define and/or own the model goodness metrics and track the business impact over time.
•    Present recommendations from complex analysis to business partners in clear and actionable form, influencing the future.
•    Identify, develop, and deliver improvements on data performance, data quality and cost, which needs to be monitored and analyzed
•    Lead and inspire a team of scientists and engineers solving AI/ML problems through R&D while pushing state of art solutions for current and future ecommerce problems.
•    Build a strong external presence through publishing your team's work in top-tier AI/ML conferences and developing partnerships with academic institutions

What you'll bring:
PhD with >10+ years of relevant experience / 6-year bachelor's degree with > 15+ years of experience / Master's degree with > 12+ years of experience. Educational qualifications should be preferably in Computer Science or a strongly quantitative discipline.
•    Manage the continuous improvement of data science and machine learning by following industry best practices and staying up to date with and extending the state-of-the-art in Machine Learning Research.
•    Integrate data science solutions into current business processes.
•    Develop and recommend process standards and best practices in Machine Learning as applicable to the retail industry.
•    Mentor peers and junior members and handle multiple projects at the same time.
•    Consult with business stakeholders across stores and e-commerce businesses regarding algorithm-based recommendations and be a thought-leader to develop these into business actions.
•    Engage and partner with universities, institutes, and vendor partners to bring in ideas and innovation into the lab's environment.
•    Peer review and publish work in top tier ML/AI conferences such as NIPS, ICML, AAAI and COLT
•    Participate and speak at various external forums such as research conferences and technical summits.
•    Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

Good to haves:
•     Recommender Systems experience, Deep learning as applied in computer vision, Experience with LLMs, Ecommerce domain.

About Walmart Global Tech:
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. 
We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

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 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 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.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.



3 years' supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India