Research Scientist - Mail Science

About Yahoo

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About the Team

The Mail Science team consists of Research Scientists and Research Engineers who pioneer and provide solutions and technologies in machine learning, classification, recommendation, personalization, information extraction, and information retrieval. Our team's work has a direct impact on Yahoo Mail, the second largest email provider in the US, and an array of other Yahoo products, and is seen and used by hundreds of millions of active users worldwide. The team has vast knowledge and expertise in turning huge amounts of user data into knowledge and applications using state-of-the-art techniques in machine learning and data science. It provides intellectual leadership and scientific acumen to the design and development of future products and services, and often facilitates Yahoo's academic collaboration by publishing its results in worldwide conferences.

About You

You love science and technology and want to use them to improve the daily experiences of hundreds of millions of people. You are a team player who will enjoy collaborating with a diverse, multinational, cross-disciplinary group of extremely talented people. You are not afraid to take risks, love experimenting with new ideas, and are capable of delivering under uncertainty. Finally, you are an excellent communicator, capable of abstracting complex solutions and presenting your work to internal partners as well as researchers in the academic community.

Responsibilities

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

Leveraging your scientific expertise, technical skills, and relevant data, you will:

• Identify, scope, and formulate new problems

• Design metrics and experiments to analyze problems and measure results

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

• 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

You will also:

• 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

• Master's degree with five years relevant experience or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Math or related field

• Expertise in machine learning, web mining, or natural language processing, and experience in information extraction, classification, information retrieval or related field

• Solid programming skills in high-level languages such as Java, Scala, Python or similar

• Experience with collaborative research, as evidenced through solid publications

• Strong communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills

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