Data Scientist - Personalization job at @WalmartLabs

Job Description

Do you like big data? Like really big data? Like multi-terabyte data sets with billions of rows? Do you like the idea of pulling, pushing, slicing and dicing this data in real-time using using Hadoop, Hbase, Hive and more? Now let's add some intelligence to the mix using machine learning, data mining and predictive analytics and shazam - you have the underpinnings of @WalmartLabs.

We are a highly motivated group of Big Data Geeks, Data Scientists and Applications Engineers, working in small agile group to solve sophisticated and high impact problems. We are building smart data systems that ingest, model and analyze massive flow of data from online, social, mobile and offline commerce/user activity to set key business attributes for millions of products in real time. We use cutting edge machine learning, data mining and optimization algorithms underneath it all to analyze all this data on top of Hadoop/HBase/Hive. If you talk, speak and think data we want to talk to you. Come join our small team and be part of the journey from the beginning

Position Description
The Opportunity

Research, design and implement data models and cutting edge algorithms to analyze diverse sources of data
Work with high dimensional and fast moving data to build continually learning systems
Through your work have direct impact on revenue and bottom line

Minimum Qualifications
The Desired Skill-Sets

MS/PhD in Operations Research/Statistics/Computer Science or a related technical discipline
Extensive Experience with R, data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling tools and underlying algorithms
Programming experience in one of the languages like Python/Ruby/Perl/Shell/C/Java
Working knowledge of Relational Data Base Systems and SQL
Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up environment with stellar team of fellow data geeks

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