Yahoo Search is looking to reinvent how users find information and accomplish their goals by integrating new technology and expanding its infrastructure. The Search Research team needs to provide solutions and technologies in machine learning for query understanding, news ranking, search results clustering, and AI powered search to improve the quality of Yahoo Search products and services.
Requirements
- Expertise in AI, machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing
- Advanced coding skills in languages such as Java, Scala, Python or similar
- Experience with collaborative research, as evidenced through solid publications or proven track record of designing and leading integration of state-of-the art ML techniques into products
Responsibilities
- Capability to understand the technical challenges of a real world problem. Ability to think and formulate problems from first principles and map them to one or more Machine Learning paradigms or create a new Machine Learning paradigm for it.
- Strong desire and ability to code up algorithms with good understanding and champion them to be used in products.
- Review state-of-the-art approaches, explore new ones, propose appropriate solutions
- Identify opportunities in existing products to enrich them with Machine Learning ideas.
- Defining the technical requirements, which involves but not limited to, data collection, evaluation mechanism and production serving strategy. Ability to analyze data and realize patterns in them.
- Design solutions that can scale
- System extensibility, i.e., considering how the systems can evolve over time
Other
- 3+ years of track record driving impact in the industry
- Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Math or related field
- Communication skills in terms of conveying technical ideas
- Explain complex ML concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Use examples and analogies
- Generate intellectual property with patent applications and publications at relevant forums
