Job: International Web Search Researcher

Yahoo Search Researcher
International Web Search Relevance Team
Location: Santa Clara, CA

Yahoo Web Search is passionate on building the best search engine on the
planet! Our product now powers about half of the searches done on the
Internet. Search is one of the most vital and dynamic technologies behind
the Internet! It is full of new challenges and opportunities for
innovation. We are looking for world class, fun-loving researchers to join
our International Web Search team! If you have a desire to be part of
building the fastest, biggest, and most innovative search engine on the
planet, come talk to me.

Belle Tseng, Ph.D.
Senior Manager, Yahoo
belle @ yahoo-inc . com

Job Responsibilities

We are looking for a few search researchers with strong background in
information retrieval and machine learning to join the Yahoo Web Search
International Relevance Team. Your essential responsibility is to focus on
improving the search relevance for international languages and regions.
This extremely challenging task requires a good understanding of not only
the general relevance technology, but also how languages differ around the
world and how the usage of the web and search engines changes from region
to region. As a senior member of the team you will play a leading role in
project/product design and development. Your long term responsibility
includes deep understanding and analyzing the search relevance issues,
mining the large corpora of web text data and query logs, designing and
developing better ways to improve search relevance, which may include
machine learning in ranking, natural language processing, entity
extraction, and text classification. In short term, you!
  will start with certain internationalization project of existing Yahoo
search technologies for which the extensive machine learning and linguistic
analysis knowledge and experience are needed. A suitable candidate for this
position will be a highly motivated person with innovated ideas and solid
coding skills, who will be able to work closely with other team members and
collaborate with International engineering team and various parts of
general relevance teams.

Minimum Job Qualifications

* Experience in statistical modeling, machine learning, computational
linguistics, NLP, feature extraction, and data mining, ideally on a Web
scale.
* Experience or interest in search engines and information retrieval.
* Solid statistical knowledge and intuition.
* Fluency in Python, Perl, or another scripting language desired.
* Experience in C or C++.
* Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with people from a
variety of technical background.

Preferable Job Qualifications

* Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent.
* Minimum two years of industrial experience.
* Native speaker of English, French, German, or Spanish.
* Experience with Matlab, S-Plus, R, or other statistical tools.
* Knowledge of Unicode and internationalization.
* Established track record in research and publication of IR, ML, NLP, CL
and related fields.
* Project R&D skills in industrial environment.
About Yahoo!
The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out
in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a
half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to
delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day.

In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked
Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big
ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative
products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for
people like you.

How Big Can You Think?

Are you a highly motivated person and really want to work on something that
is the number one in the world ? Are you full of creative ideas and also
detail oriented in analyzing and solving hard problems ? Are you a hands-on
person who can quickly implement the ideas into the product features.

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to
search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.