Agile methodologies, Analytical and Problem solving, Apache Hadoop, AWS, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, HBase, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MLOps tools, Python Programming, Scala Programming, SPARK Programming
People like to shop online day by day, especially in the post-pandemic period. At Yahoo, our mission is to connect hundreds of millions of people around the world to the things they love. As a Commerce team, we aim to provide a trusted shopping guide to our users. We are the US Commerce Data Science team, crafting product personalized services, recommender systems, and product search ranking through data-driven approaches. As we expand commerce experiences to Yahoo ecosystems – such as Yahoo Shopping (https://shopping.yahoo.com), Homepage, Lifestyle, Mail, Web Search, and Engadget – quality improvement and performance stability are vital pillars to advancing our services. Join us in building the most trustworthy commerce content by developing the most accurate recommender models, rank algorithms, and robust data aggregation / preprocess pipelines.
A Lot About You
As a member of the US Commerce Data Science team, the Research Engineer will play a critical role in innovating and exploring use cases, resolving problems in creative and flexible ways, and building and enhancing recommender models, search ranking, and data pipelines. You can work on novel machine learning technologies, real-life web-scale challenges, unique e-commerce domain, and complex challenges with top-notch engineers. You have access to the internet-scale amount of data and powerful Hadoop/Spark clusters that consist of thousands of computing nodes. What you do will meaningfully contribute to the bigger success of the company.
Day to day of the role
This role will work seamlessly with product managers and engineers around the world to enrich user experience from data-driven approaches, such as machine learning, information retrieval, and statistics. You will be a major problem-solver, model designer, and service contributor to resolving obstacles and supporting product requirements in analytical, practical, realistic, and agile ways. You will code in Java/Scala/Python on the Unix platform to build recommender applications that handle a massive scale of data within milliseconds.
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Join us to immerse yourself in an energetic environment, closely access yourself to cutting edge technology and participate yourself in the exciting and dynamic Internet Industry! Apply Now!
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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.
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Sunnyvale, CA, USA
6-8 year
United States
6-8 year