Data Scientist III

At Sam's Club, we are democratizing AI across all major functions in the business and radically disrupting conventional industry practices.

Our Data Science team is building a first-in-class platform of tools and services covering high-performance computing, ML training services, DevOps, model deployment, and metadata capture. Our goal is to decrease AI/ML development and training cycle time while raising the quality bar on AI/ML shipped services.

This is a hands-on position where you will be empowered to be creative, ambitious, and bold. Our mission on the Data Science team is to provide deep computing expertise, automated workflows, production-grade infrastructure, and helpful tooling to enable the AI/ML team and our partners to solve cutting-edge research problems in the Retail space and translate their solutions into a direct impact on the business and on Members.

About Team: Sam's AI Labs
Centralized Data Science and Machine Learning Tech Group in Sam's Club Tech

What you'll do:

• Utilize big data analytics and advanced data science techniques to identify trends, patterns, and discrepancies in data. Determine additional data needed to support insights.

• Drive data-derived insights across the wide range of retail divisions by developing advanced statistical models, machine learning algorithms and computational algorithms based on business initiatives.

• Direct the gathering of data, assessing data validity and synthesizing data into large analytics datasets to support project goals.

• Debug issues across environments, services, and tools

• A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate, and optimize models and products.

• Work with engineering teams to implement model pipeline and deploy the service at scale.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to understand business objectives, requirements, and constraints. Work collaboratively to translate business needs into data-driven pricing solutions.

• Document methodologies, findings, and recommendations in clear and concise manner. Communicate complex technical concepts and insights to non-technical stakeholders through presentations, reports, and dashboards

• Drive innovation in approach, method, practices, process, outcome, delivery, or any component of end-to-end problem solving.

What you'll bring:

• BS or MS degree in Statistics, Computer Science or related field

• Expertise in Data Science and Machine Learning including Regression, Classification, Ensemble Methods, Deep Learning, GenAI, etc.

• Expertise in python, PySpark and SQL

• Strong hands-on skills in data wrangling over massive datasets using distributed computing platform.

• Expertise in time series forecasting

• Experience with big data analytics - identifying trends, patterns, and outliers in large volumes of data.

• Experience in Google Cloud platform, Vertex AI, Kubeflow, model deployment
• Familiarity with product development life cycle

• Domain Knowledge of one or more divisions in Retail.

About Walmart General/Not Function Specific
Sam Walton opened the first Sam's Club in 1983 to meet a growing need among customers who wanted to buy merchandise in bulk. Since then, Sam's Club has grown rapidly, opening more than 600 clubs in the U.S. and 100 clubs internationally. By offering affordable, wholesale merchandise to members, Sam's Club helps make saving simple for families and small business owners. Sam's Club employs about 110,000 associates in the U.S. The average club is 134,000 square feet and offers bulk groceries and general merchandise. Most clubs also have specialty services, such as a pharmacy, an optical department, a photo center, or a tire and battery center.

​​​Future Ways of Working:
Our company's success can be attributed to our employees. While technology has allowed us to be effective while working remotely, there is no substitute for being in the office together; it helps to shape our culture, collaborate, innovate, build relationships, and move more quickly. We strive to provide flexibility in order to promote a healthy work-life balance but recognize that in-person interactions are important to our culture and shared success. We'll meet in person on a regular and purposeful basis.

Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Sam’s Club 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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.