# PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST

Position Summary... What you'll do... About the Team: We are team of highly skilled engineers owning Data Foundations and Avoid pillar in Customer Care Tech from Bengaluru, India. Team is rightly balanced delivering critical business initiatives at the same time very focused on innovation, engineering and operational excellence. This team is responsible for building an enterprise-scale, AI-powered platform that transforms customer and operational signals into actionable insights to identify defects and improve customer experience. This work enables proactive issue resolution, improved operational efficiency, and progress toward Walmart’s vision of delivering Perfect Orders. What You'll Do: As a Principal Data Scientist, You will define the problem statements and the solution direction. You'll own the full lifecycle: spotting the highest-leverage bets, getting stakeholders on board, framing the science, and leading execution through data engineering, large-scale training, inference optimization, and production rollout. We'll judge success by what ships and what customers and the business can measure, not by prototypes. Identify problems: Find patterns, problems and root cause for th

- **Id**: 4074284
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walmart-principal-data-scientist-4>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T14:49:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T18:38:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7327
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Marketplaces, Retail & Shop Systems, Online Groceries

## Company

- **Id**: 236
- **Name**: Walmart
- **Domain**: walmart.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/walmart>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 349
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.117
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **A/B Testing** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **DeepSpeed** — Optional: no
- **FSDP** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Megatron-LM** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT-LLM** — Optional: no
- **Triton** — Optional: no
- **Triton Inference Server** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T14:49:29Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T19:22:58Z

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