Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with over 220 million users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.
About the Team
The Mail Research team is heading research in the field of E-Commerce in Mail and is responsible for a number of strategic efforts. These include the extraction of commercial email items, such as receipts, shipments, bills, and deals, as well as the categorization and the recommendation of products and deals. This, with the mission to enable new shopping experiences across the consumer ecosystem, in products such as Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Shopping Hub and Yahoo Search. In terms of revenue, E-commerce is a steeply accelerating domain and is recognized as one of the key growth vectors of the entire company.
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 adds intellectual leadership and scientific acumenship to the discussion 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 cheer up 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.
Required Skills
· M.Sc./Ph.D in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related area with focus on data science, distributed systems, machine learning, or algorithms
· Solid design and implementation skills in Java, Python or Scala
· Interest and background in one of the following areas are a great plus: IR, NLP, DL
· Good communication and presentation skills
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