Senior Data Scientist
Walmart, San Bruno, CA
About the job
What you'll do...
Job title: Senior Data Scientist
Work address: 850 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066
Duties: Develop custom data models to drive innovative business solutions. Build complex data sets from multiple data sources, both internally and externally. Conduct advanced statistical analysis to determine trends and significant data relationships. Build learning systems to analyze and filter continuous data flows and offline data analysis. Train algorithms to apply models to new data sets. Validate models and algorithmic techniques. Scale new algorithms to large data sets. Combine data features to determine search models. Research new techniques and best practices within the industry. Utilize system tools including MySQL, Hadoop, Weka, R, Matlab, and ILog. Analyze large data sets to develop custom models and algorithms to drive business solutions. Work on project teams to provide analytical support to projects for Walmart eCommerce. Build large data sets from multiple sources to build algorithms for predicting future data characteristics. Those algorithms will be tested, validated, and applied to large data sets. Train the algorithms so they can be applied to future data sets and provide the appropriate search results. Research new trends in the industry and utilizing up-to-date technology (for example, HBase, MapReduce, LAPack, Gurobi) and analytical skills to support assigned projects. Work with cross-functional partners across the business. Develop models of current state to determine needed improvements.
