Software Engineer Intern

Key Skills

Python Programming, SQL, Cloud computing

Job Description

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. 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. Want in?

Yahoo commits to building brands people love. We reach over one billion people around the world with a dynamic house of 50+ media and technology brands. A global leader in digital and mobile, Yahoo is shaping the future of media.

Yahoo Search is one of the most highly-scaled web platforms on the planet, serving over 100 million global users every month across Yahoo branded sites and partner networks. We move fast, take risks, and are relentlessly focused on engineering excellence. We are hiring world-class engineers who love to build robust and scalable software systems to meet our incredibly ambitious user experience, relevance, performance, and revenue goals.

What We Do and What You'll Learn

• Build automated pipelines and backend serving for query auto-completion, query understanding, card triggering, card slotting, and revenue optimization capabilities
• Learn and gain a deep understanding of Pig/Oozie/Storm/Spark/Tensorflow, data extraction, model training, evaluation, and serving etc.

• Learn and become an expert in information retrieval techniques to build user experiences in major search domains like Local, Movie, Sports, Finance and Product/Shopping etc.
• Develop software that powers experiences on smartphones, tablet, and desktop to drive growth in audience, engagement, and revenue globally.

You Should Have

• Fluency in either C++ or Java.
• Experience with a scripting language, such as Python or Perl.
• Some experience in data mining or machine learning using tools such as Hadoop, Spark and/or Tensorflow etc.
• Good verbal and written communication. Strong teamwork skills.
• Major in Computer Science or equivalent, MS or PhD student preferred.