Machine Learning Engineer

Key Skills

Unix Operating system, Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, AWS, Big Data Technology, Apache Hadoop, Scala Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Apache Pig, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Algorithms, Linux Operating system, HBase, Apache Oozie, Large scale data processing, Common data structures

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?

A Little About US

As a global email provider, Yahoo Mail is the ultimate Consumer Inbox with over 220 million users. It is the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. We create technology that changes the internet while handling billions of inbound connections per day to manage trillions of messages requiring petabytes of efficient storage.

The Yahoo Mail engineering team develops the solutions to power our mail brands, including a next-generation backend infrastructure that we are moving to a 100% public cloud native architecture. We are looking for innovative, entrepreneurial, and passionate developers to help us build the future of communications experiences and delight our users. We are engineers who strive to deliver our users only the absolute best and are willing to meticulously refine the details to achieve this goal.

We believe that engineering is only a piece of the effort and that you must be as passionate about the user’s experience as you are about code quality and architecture. Our goal is to make communication simple, enjoyable and more productive to help our users run the business of life.

The Mail Intelligence platform is responsible for building the next generation platforms and services enabling Yahoo to deliver deeply personalized content to the hundreds of millions of users wherever they are and whatever mode of consumption they are using.

We (Mail Intelligence platform) process billions of mail messages(data in tune of several petabytes).With the help of cutting edge algorithms we extract information, build knowledge, interconnect information between different sources to deliver a great experience to our users. Building this knowledge provides many challenges in the areas of natural language processing, machine learning techniques, big data processing in order of petabytes. You will build tools and workflows to make it easier to manage and act on this vast information. You will apply your insights on the data to build innovative consumer applications for Yahoo.

Responsibilities:

• Build large-scale distributed systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
• Collaborate with other engineers to write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems
• Deploy, monitor and operate large scale production systems distributed across the globe. 
• Automate the provisioning, scaling, and management of our infrastructure
• Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals

A lot about YOU

You are passionate about growing your skills and value high quality engineering that can help modernize systems in the Cloud. You are interested in how best to drive tasks to completion, collaborate to achieve your goals, think through scenarios and edge cases, learn from your leadership (mentors), and understand the broader impact of your work. If you are interested in joining a world-class team of passionate people and industry veterans who like to work hard and play hard, we look forward to hearing from you soon!

Qualifications:

• S./M.S. in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Software development experience in Java, Python, Scala
• Experience in building scalable distributed data processing systems handling big data with technologies like hadoop, hbase, pig, oozie to name few.
• Experience with Tensorflow/PyTorch
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals including Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networking
• Experience with development on Unix (Linux) platform
• Experience with designing and developing high performing and complex server application
• Ability to work well with diverse groups of people, geographically dispersed across the world
• Good communicator, enjoys helping people, remains friendly and constructive under stress

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years Software development experience in data and M/L engineering
• Fast learner, who can quickly come up to speed with different technologies & troubleshoot issues
• Excellent verbal, written, and communication/presentation skills
• Self-motivated and able to work independently
• Knowledge and operational experience running large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with cloud native application development and architecture, preferably in AWS or GCP.
• Experience with test-driven development.
• Prior experience in Information Retrieval and extractions.
• Familiarity with data mining, text processing and classification algorithms.
• Understanding of statistical methods and exploratory data analysis.

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 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 page to learn more.

US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.