(USA) Senior, Data Scientist

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What you'll do...

(USA) Senior Data Scientist Multilingual Experiences – Walmart Translation Platform At Walmart eCommerce we connect customers with the right products at the best price. As part of the Fortune #1 enterprise, your contributions will be visible to millions who rely on our online marketplace. We’re living in a transformative era where breakthroughs in AI are reshaping how people interact with technology every day. If you’re passionate about applying cutting-edge machine learning to solve real-world problems at scale and create meaningful impact for millions of customers, then look no further – our team will find the way to meet your passion! What you’ll do:

• Design, implement, and evaluate machine learning systems for translation, localization, contextualization and personalization.
• Contribute to applied research in NLP and multilingual AI, with opportunities to publish or patent your work.
• Build scalable data pipelines for real-time and batch multilingual experience use-cases.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to understand business needs and formulate concrete, data-driven solutions.

What you’ll bring:

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
• A strong foundation in machine learning and NLP, with a passion for building accurate, impactful, and efficient ML systems.
• Experience with sequence-to-sequence modeling using Transformers or LLMs, ideally for multilingual and/or speech applications.
• Proficiency with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Fluency in English and in either Hindi or Mandarin.
• Enthusiasm to contribute across the ML lifecycle, from research and prototyping to experimentation and deployment.

Why join us? Our team is recognized across the company and industry for innovation:

• President Innovation Award 2025 from Walmart CEO Doug McMillon.
• Best International Retailer prize by the Spanish Retail Association.
• Research Paper at WWW’23 in Austin.
• 3 patents published in last two years.
• Industry day talk at CIKM’22.
• Multi^3: Multi-million growth in revenue to Walmart by launching multi-lingual experiences across multi-ple markets.

About Walmart Global Tech We’re a global team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. We power innovations that improve the experience of our customers and our 2.2 million associates around the world. Walmart has always been about the people. Being human-led is our true disruption.

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.

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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.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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