Onsite Principal Data Scientist, GenAI

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About the role

  • Principal Data Scientist designing innovative AI solutions at Walmart Global Tech. Leading projects on AI-powered conversational systems to enhance associate processes and experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate closely with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and software engineers to design, architect, build, deploy, operate, and optimize production-grade AI/ML and GenAI systems
  • Design end-to-end architectures for GenAI, agentic AI, and data-intensive applications, ensuring scalability, observability, reliability, security, and responsible AI compliance
  • Design and build self-service voice and chat AI systems, including LLM-powered conversational and agentic experiences that support autonomous, multi-step task execution across People Support workflows
  • Construct and evolve multi-agent intelligent workflows, translating natural language inputs into goal-directed actions using orchestration frameworks, tools, and robust state and memory management
  • Design and develop supporting microservices for AI systems, and integrate them with existing enterprise platforms, APIs, and workflows
  • Develop, deploy, and operate production-grade real-time and batch ML/GenAI services, supporting low-latency inference, orchestration, and fault-tolerant execution
  • Partner with product managers to design user journeys, feedback loops, and telemetry strategies, and analyze user behavior to continuously improve system and agent outcomes
  • Define and own comprehensive evaluation strategies for GenAI and agentic systems, including offline and online evaluation, task success metrics, grounding and hallucination detection, latency and cost controls, A/B testing, and user outcome measurement
  • Identify and propose AI/ML and agentic AI use cases that improve business processes, and rapidly build MVPs and POCs to help stakeholders assess feasibility and impact
  • Mentor and guide data scientists and ML engineers, helping grow technical depth, system thinking, and business context within the team
  • Define and drive responsible AI practices, including safety guardrails, monitoring, governance, explainability, and human-in-the-loop mechanisms to ensure trustworthy AI in production
  • Collaborate with applied researchers and platform teams to iteratively improve models, prompts, tools, memory strategies, and MLOps practices

Requirements

  • 13+ years of professional experience designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, production-grade AI/ML and GenAI systems
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, statistics, mathematics, economics, or a related quantitative field
  • Strong industry experience building production AI/ML systems, preferably at large technology companies or AI-native startups
  • Extensive experience writing high-quality, production-grade Python code, with strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Deep expertise in statistical analysis and machine learning, using frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or equivalent
  • Hands-on experience building GenAI systems, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, orchestration, and retrieval strategies
  • Demonstrated experience developing conversational AI systems, such as chatbots, virtual assistants, or dialogue-driven applications, with a strong understanding of NLP, intent handling, and multi-turn conversation design
  • Experience managing conversational state, memory, and context, including session persistence, personalization, and long-lived interactions
  • Experience designing and deploying agentic AI systems, including multi-agent workflows, tool use, autonomous task execution, and failure handling
  • Demonstrated experience defining evaluation and measurement strategies for GenAI systems, including LLM quality assessment, RAG effectiveness, agent behavior validation, continuous monitoring, and experimentation in production
  • Experience building and scaling distributed machine learning systems, including training, inference, and serving
  • Familiarity with microservices architectures and enterprise system integration, including API-based communication and collaboration with backend platforms
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and orchestration, including Git and Kubernetes
  • Ability to execute and advocate for responsible AI practices with stakeholders across the enterprise
  • Strong mentorship and technical leadership skills, with experience guiding engineers and data scientists through complex and ambiguous problems
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • A research-driven, detail-oriented mindset, balanced with a strong bias toward execution and real-world impact
  • A collaborative, ownership-oriented approach, with a history of openness, clear communication, and timely decision-making.

Benefits

  • maternity and parental leave
  • pto
  • health benefits
  • incentive awards for your performance
  • best-in-class benefits

Job title

Principal Data Scientist, GenAI

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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