It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

A Little About Us
The Consumer Research team at Yahoo has a direct impact on the quality of various products and services at Yahoo including: Yahoo Mail, Yahoo’s Home Page, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Advertising, and others. Our team within research engineering provides solutions and technologies in machine learning for recommendation and personalization, information extraction, knowledge graph construction and management. 

The Search and Recommendation Research team is under the Consumer Research team at Yahoo. We are researchers who work across organizational boundaries to apply and advance state-of-the-art machine learning techniques in areas such as search, recommendation and personalization. The team pioneers and provides solutions and technologies in AI and machine learning. The team’s work has a direct impact on the quality of various products and services at Yahoo including Yahoo Search, Yahoo Home Page, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, and others.

A Lot About You

As a Research Scientist in the Consumer Research team, you will apply and advance state-of-the-art machine learning techniques in areas such as personalization and ranking, information extraction, and information retrieval.

Responsibilities:

• Identify, scope, and formulate new problems

• Review state-of-the-art approaches, explore new ones, propose appropriate solutions

• Design metrics and experiments to analyze problems and measure results

• Prototype and evaluate effective solutions based on agreed-upon goals and metrics

• Work and communicate effectively with engineering partners to put research results into action

• Provide thought leadership to guide the direction of products and services

• Generate intellectual property with patent applications and publications at relevant forums

• Stay current on state-of-the-art research and emerging technologies in related disciplines

• Maintain world-class credentials through publications, collaborations, and service to the research community

Requirements:

• Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or Applied Math

• Expertise in machine learning, AI, web mining and natural language processing

• Experience in information extraction, knowledge management, information retrieval or related field

• Advanced programming skills in languages such as Java, Scala, Python or similar

• Experience with collaborative research, as evidenced through solid publications

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

At Yahoo, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion (www.yahooinc.com/diversity/) page to learn more.

The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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