at Yahoo Holdings Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that reaches hundreds of millions of people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news-with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.
Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products such as Yahoo News , Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance .
A Little About Us
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news-with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day.
At Yahoo News, we are laser-focused on making discovery delightful and becoming the world's best curator for our 35 million daily users and expanding our distribution to more platforms to meet millions more users where they are. Building the best guide to the Internet (and the world) requires building the best team.
Location Preference: New York City or Reston, Virginia - hybrid work environment
Who You Are
- You excel at explaining technical concepts to anyone and everyone. People enjoy collaborating with you.
- You have a bias for action. When you see problems, you solve them.
- You are extremely curious. You are constantly interested in how the systems and models you interact with work "under the hood."
- You are customer focused-regardless of whether the customer is an external user or an internal team.
- You know that writing code isn't the end of the process, and you delight in understanding how that code is running in production, looking at metrics, and planning improvements.
Responsibilities
- Hands-on development of "full-stack" ranking, recommendation and content understanding systems that will power the next-generation of Yahoo! News.
- Leverage third-party, open-source and in-house machine learning tools to build high-performing machine learning systems.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners to leverage machine learning to improve Yahoo News for our readers and build state-of-the-art tooling for our editorial team.
Qualifications
We are building a team with expertise across machine learning engineering, machine learning modeling and data engineering to enable us to deliver end-to-end product solutions. We encourage you to apply if you have expertise in one of these domains and you are excited to work on a "full-stack" ML engineering team.
We are hiring for this role at various levels.
ML Engineering
- Industry experience in productionalizing batch and online machine learning models.
- Knowledge of workflow orchestration solutions and opinions about best practices on how to use them.
- Experience using and evaluating open-source and 3rd party "mlops" solutions.
ML Modeling
- Ability to formalize a product problem, run reproducible offline experiments and analyze the results.
- Strong written communication and data visualization skills.
- Experience working with modern ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, Jax).
- Understanding of the difference between "research" code and production code, and when each is appropriate.
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