Senior Data Scientist

Key Skills

Python Programming, Scala Programming, C++, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, SQL, Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, TensorFlow, PyTorch, R Programming

Job Description

Senior Data Scientist - #30282

In 2007, we started the Flipkart journey by selling books online. But now, over a decade later, our story is quite different. Today, Flipkart is India’s largest online marketplace and one of India’s leading technology powerhouse that is disrupting the way India shops online. What has got us here? The dynamic, passionate and talented folks we call Flipsters!

Flipkart is India’s market leader in eCommerce with over 100 million customers, 80 million products in 80+ categories, 100,000+ sellers, generating and processing 1.2 Petabytes of data daily. Flipkart’s core values are centered around audacious thinking, a bias for action and a customer-first ethos. Flipkart has built a technical team of the highest caliber drawing from the finest colleges in India and abroad such as IIT, CMU, IISC, BITS, and IIIT, and has developed a high-quality eCommerce platform customized for the Indian customer. Flipkart is an innovation leader having pioneered Cash on Demand and ingenious use of fulfillment centers in India. Flipkart has a strong Data Science team in India that is working on cutting edge problems like multi-language speech recognition and natural language understanding, search and fraud detection. Flipkart has now established a Center in Redmond, Washington to advance the state of the art in Natural Language Understanding, Chatbots and Computer Vision.

India’s eCommerce market is in its infancy and is growing very rapidly, and the level of complexity is both exhilarating and challenging. India is a country with its own version of English that is colorfully decorated with words such as chappal for slippers, and jhadu for a broom. Indian English is full of variety and complexity making it ripe for innovative natural language understanding. One of the areas of research will be natural language bots that can help with customer service and order fulfillment. The Seattle team will be responsible for developing natural language understanding technologies using state of the art Deep Learning techniques.

The AI Center will also focus on Computer Vision applications that can be used for editorial purposes, for example identifying bad returns or identifying inappropriate images uploaded to the cloud.

Each project will operate in a typical two-pizza team fashion with scientists, data engineers, product and program managers working to deliver state of the art solutions that will be integrated into Flipkart web front end and back end applications. Each team will have a single-threaded leader who will have wide latitude and independence.

Basic Qualifications

• A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Operations Research or equivalent discipline.
• 6+ years of experience (based on the level)
• Proven ability to ship NLP or Computer Vision applications
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as Tensorflow, Keras, Pytorch
• Able to write production-level code, which is well-written and explainable
• Deep experience with Python
• Familiarity with data visualization tools
• Experience using ML libraries, such as scikit-learn
• Experience working with GPUs to develop models
• Experience handling terabyte size datasets

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics or equivalent discipline
• Research publications in NLP or Computer Vision in peer-reviewed journals.
• Strong industry experience in developing practical AI applications
• Strong writing skills (writing sample is required as part of the interview process)
• Combination of business and technical savvy

Flipkart offers excellent medical, dental and vision benefits. Flipkart encourages giving back to the Open Source community. There are also many opportunities to publish and present at conferences.

Open Positions: 1

Skills Required: NLP, Computer Vision, BOT

Location: California,NA