Data Mining Researcher, Scientist - Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA)

Y! has more than 500 million unique visitors per month who generate 10+ Terabytes of click-stream data each day, resulting in Petabyte scale data warehouse! Can you be the one to create scalable algorithms that make sense of this largest user data warehouse in the world?

Y! Data Mining and Research (DMR), a part of Y! Strategic Data Solutions (SDS), is looking for outstanding data-mining researchers. We seek results oriented researchers who want to solve real problems that make a direct and measurable business impact. These individuals should enjoy formulating problems based on customer needs, selecting, modifying and/or building appropriate tools or methodologies, and providing true end-to-end solutions for diversified challenging data mining and data research projects.

We not only provide the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the business but also encourage our team members to stay abreast of novel academic work and seek patents and/or publish work when appropriate. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your data mining skills to the 10+ terabytes of data that Yahoo! captures every day.

Job Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise and desire to work hands-on in analyzing and modeling large industrial data sets.
• Experience in exploratory data analysis and in data mining processes.
• Proven knowledge of data mining and machine learning methods and tools.
• Ph.D. in Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
  Outstanding researchers with a Master's degree in CS or related field with 5+ years of rich industry experience will also be considered.

• Software development skills (C/C++, Perl, Java, SQL, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to understand business requirements.
• Team spirit and ability to aggressively execute independently.

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit

http://careers.yahoo.com.

posted by: Ann Livingood

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