Walmart Labs - Staff Engineer - Data Scientist

Staff Engineer - Data Scientist

Our Company :

We help people around the world save money and live better  anytime and anywhere  in retail stores, online and through their mobile devices. Each week, more than 220 million customers and members visit our 11,096 stores under 69 banners in 27 countries and e-commerce websites in 10 countries. With 2014 fiscal revenues of approximately $486 billion, Walmart employs 2.2 million employees worldwide.

@Walmart Labs in Bangalore, we use technology for the charter of building brand new platforms and services on the latest technology stack to support both our e-commerce and stores businesses worldwide.

Our Team:

The Growth Team @Walmart Labs has the mandate of increasing the rate of customer acquisition, retention, and revenue by optimizing products and inventing new marketing channels. We are a bunch of super talented and passionate engineers, data scientists and analysts working together on an array of impactful problems in domains ranging from displaying ads on the Open web and Social Marketing channels to optimizing paid and free search for walmart.com.

Job Overview:

We are looking for savvy Data Scientists to join our growing team. They will be responsible for solving complex big-data problems in the display advertising space using data mining, machine learning, statistical analysis and computational economics. 

- The right candidates will have strong depth and breadth knowledge in machine learning, data mining and statistics, reasonable programming and design skills to manipulate unstructured and big data and be able build prototypes that work on massive datasets. They should be able to apply business knowledge to perform broad data analysis as a precursor to modelling and to provide valuable business intelligence.

Experience :

- Experience using data intelligently to optimize product performance

- Experience performing analysis on raw event data in modern data warehouse systems

- Deep understanding of data platforms in which you- ve previously worked

- Good understanding of how to grow and shape data tools and datasets to improve data-driven decision making

- Ability to thrive in an unstructured environment, working autonomously on a strong team to find opportunity and deliver business impact

- Solid experience with Python (preferred) and/or R