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Research Scientist
Yahoo!
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Yahoo makes the world’s daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. Yahoo’s businesses span across Search, Communications, Media and many other verticals.
Department Description
Yahoo Labs sets the course for the future. We're Yahoo’s incubator for bold scientific experimentation. We specialize in deep, creative thought on the company’s hardest technical problems, and hire amazing research scientists and engineers who serve as Yahoo’s most forward-looking thinkers. We stretch the limits of theory, we apply novel ideas in practice, and we experiment. We love challenging problems, we love bleeding-edge technology, and we love data.
Yahoo Labs is one of the most highly collaborative places you’ll ever see. Partnerships abound within our own teams, with all key product teams, and with the international scientific community.
We’ll challenge your brain every day, and when you succeed you’ll change the lives of hundreds of millions of people, allowing them to do things they never dreamed they could do. Come join us and use your scientific background to drive Yahoo-scale innovation!
A Little About Us
Yahoo Labs is pioneering the new sciences underlying online publishing and advertising across all devices – desktop, smartphones, and tablets. As the center of scientific excellence for Yahoo, Yahoo Labs delivers both fundamental and applied scientific leadership through published research, product innovations and new technologies powering the company's products.
Our focus areas include Computer Vision, Computational Advertising, HCI, Media, Machine Learning, Mobile, Personalization, Systems Research, Web Mining, and Search.
A Lot About You
Research Scientists design and carry out fundamental, investigations that expand knowledge and may result in new products, new processes or new business areas.
We strongly encourage our team members to stay abreast of novel academic work and seek patents and/or publish work when appropriate. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your data mining skills to the 10 terabytes of data that Yahoo captures every day.
Your Day
• Research in image content understanding (classification, object detection, etc.) and discovery (image recommendation) using multiple data sources. Experience in mobile is a plus.
• Develop a deep understanding of data to understand usage patterns and apply the knowledge gained in developing algorithms that satisfy user needs.
• Work closely with research engineers to develop prototypes and transfer research to products.
• Communicate research results to product and engineering teams.
• Actively participate in the research community by publishing in top tier conferences and journals.
You Must Have
• 5+ years industrial or academic experience in exploratory data analysis, data mining process, and machine learning methodology.
• Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Data Mining, IR, Statistics, AI or a related field.
• Demonstrated expertise and desire to work hands-on in analyzing and modeling large data sets.
• Strong algorithmic problem solving skills.
• Software development skills (C/C++, Perl, Python, Java, SQL, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to understand business requirements.
• Team spirit as well as the ability to execute independently.