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Research Scientist
Yahoo!
Haifa, , Israel
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Description
A little about us
Yahoo Labs is pioneering the new sciences underlying the Web. As the center of scientific excellence, Yahoo Labs delivers both fundamental and applied scientific leadership through published research in order to support products such as Yahoo’s mail, search and homepage, and new, cross-product technologies, such as ad matching and text processing.
We are growing our complex-queries research team, which builds new algorithms to support search over the Web and structured corpora for intricate information needs. The office is conveniently located in MATAM, a short walk from the Hof Hacarmel train station
Job description
You will be working with research scientists and engineers, as well as with product teams abroad, product managers and other partners to build compelling data-driven search features and applications as well as to drive high-quality academic research.
Your Responsibilities
• Initiate and execute research projects, develop new and innovative algorithms and technologies and pursue patents where appropriate.
• Analyze data, identify problems and potential customers, devise solutions and build prototypes.
• Stay current on the state-of-the-art published algorithms and competing technologies; maintain world-class academic credentials through publications in top-tier conferences, presentations and invited talks, external collaborations and service to the research community. Our “home” conferences are WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, KDD, ACL, EMNLP, CSCW and ICML.
You Must Have
• Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field.
• Industry or academic experience.
• Research track record, focused on one or more of the following fields: Information Retrieval, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, or Data Mining.
• Familiarity with OO programming concepts and languages and past experience in either Java, Scala, C# or C++.
Preferred Skills and Experience
• Ability to lead academic-level research that is justified and guided by business opportunities.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.