position purpose at homedepotcom our awardwinning ecommerce team is blazing a trail of retail shopping innovation by leveraging cuttingedge technology with our 2200 store locations and a relentless focus on customer service we have been named one of the worlds most innovative companies and we are on a mission to provide the best interconnected shopping experience to our consumers to do so we need more dreamers innovators and big thinkers passionate about reimagining the future of retail interested in making history with us if so apply today to experience what its like to be a part of our homedepotcom team who knows your next big idea may just change the future of retail the data scientist will develop best in class conversational ai search science products to support a wide range of use cases that drive better experiences for our customers by partnering with business leaders and engineering teams we will develop inhouse natural language understanding pipelines to support millions of our internal external customers at scale this positions primary focus is to better recognize customer intent via nlpnlumachine learning and provide high impact solutions to the business major tasks responsibilities and key accountabilities 50design and develop algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights 20establish scalable efficient processes for large scale data analyses model development and model implementation 20present analysis and resulting recommendations to senior management leverage data to present a compelling business case to optimize investments and operations 10communicate and educate technical and nontechnical employees on analytics and datadriven decision making nature and scope this position reports to director of data science or sr manager data science this position has no direct reports environment located in a comfortable indoor area any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable travel typically requires overnight travel less than 10 of the time minimum qualifications must be eighteen years of age or older must be legally permitted to work in the united states education required the knowledge skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a masters degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job years of relevant work experience 0 years physical requirements most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about on rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles additional qualifications masters in computer science math or related quantitative field or bsba in computer science math or related quantitative field and 5 years of data mining experience work experience with hadoop sas hbase cassandra or other similar development platforms expert knowledge in large scale information retrieval and statistical analysis preferred qualifications 23 years of experience in data science natural language processing previous work experience in ecommerce conversational ai or search science experience with deep learning machine learning experience with information retrieval dialogue systems coreference resolution ner nlu andor knowledge graph knowledge skills abilities and competencies ability to build