at Yahoo Holdings Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world.
A Little About Us
The Consumer Research team at Yahoo has a direct impact on the quality of various products and services at Yahoo including: Yahoo Mail, Yahoo's Home Page, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Advertising, and others. Our team within research engineering provides solutions and technologies in machine learning for recommendation and personalization, information extraction, knowledge graph construction and management.
The Search and Recommendation Research team is under the Consumer Research team at Yahoo. We are researchers who work across organizational boundaries to apply and advance state-of-the-art machine learning techniques in areas such as search, recommendation and personalization. The team pioneers and provides solutions and technologies in AI and machine learning. The team's work has a direct impact on the quality of various products and services at Yahoo including Yahoo Search, Yahoo Home Page, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, and others.
A Lot About You
As a Research Scientist in the Consumer Research team, you will apply and advance state-of-the-art machine learning techniques in areas such as personalization and ranking, information extraction, and information retrieval .
Responsibilities:
- Identify, scope, and formulate new problems
- Review state-of-the-art approaches, explore new ones, propose appropriate solutions
- Design metrics and experiments to analyze problems and measure results
- Prototype and evaluate effective solutions based on agreed-upon goals and metrics
- Work and communicate effectively with engineering partners to put research results into action
- Provide thought leadership to guide the direction of products and services
- Generate intellectual property with patent applications and publications at relevant forums
- Stay current on state-of-the-art research and emerging technologies in related disciplines
- Maintain world-class credentials through publications, collaborations, and service to the research community
Requirements:
- Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or Applied Math
- Expertise in machine learning, AI, web mining and natural language processing
- Experience in information extraction, knowledge management, information retrieval or related field
- Advanced programming skills in languages such as Java, Scala, Python or similar
- Experience with collaborative research, as evidenced through solid publications
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