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Research Scientist, Sr
Yahoo!
Haifa, , Israel
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Description
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.
Yahoo Labs is pioneering the new sciences underlying the Web. As the center of scientific excellence for Yahoo. Yahoo Labs delivers both fundamental and applied scientific leadership through new technologies powering the company's products (https://labs.yahoo.com).
A Little About Us
Yahoo Labs is growing its strategic research teams to enable the company to build the cool products and enabling platforms that our customers need, now and in the future. Our mission is to deep dive into the data to understanding and apply patterns and data analytics to empower our products. Specifically, the Mail Mining team at Yahoo labs analyzes and model Yahoo mail data, to get new insights and devise novel mail features and applications.
A Lot About You
You will be responsible for design and development of end-to-end features and applications related to Yahoo mail, as well as deeply involved in research leading to the new findings upon which our activities are based. You will be working with the best scientific minds who like to roll up their sleeves, dig into mountains of data and uncover new discoveries to contribute to the business’ success and take part in publications at the top scientific conferences. You ill be working with research scientists and engineers, as well as with product teams abroad, product managers and other labs partners to build compelling data-driven mail features and applications. You have deep proficiency in software development and OO languages, as well as data analysis and systems, and are eager to explore new tools and technologies.
Your Day
• Initiate and execute research and development projects, develop new and innovative algorithms and technologies.
• Analyze data, identify problems and potential customers, devise solutions and build prototypes
• Stay current on published state-of-the-art algorithms and competing technologies and maintain world-class academic credentials through involvement in publications and service to the research community. Pursue patents where appropriate
You Must Have
• MSc in Computer Science or related field
• High expertise in computer engineering as well as with OO programming concepts and languages.
Preferred Skills and Experience
• Industry or academic experience.
• Experience in data science or large scale computing (specifically, information retrieval, computational linguistics, machine learning, matrix and graph algorithms, unsupervised clustering, data mining, large scale systems).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to perform research that is justified and guided by business opportunities