European Search Monetization Researcher

Description
European Search Monetization Researcher
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Job#RX1000017051

European Search Monetization Researcher
Desired Attributes

Are you passionate about building the best search technology to provide online advertising for the world? Do you enjoy working on cutting-edge search and marketplace technology? The Yahoo! Search Marketing team is seeking multiple applied researchers to join our global monetized search efforts. As a member of the international marketplace design team, you will work closely and concurrently with other engineering teams in the US and other countries to design, adapt, and tune algorithms for use in all markets in Europe and America.

Responsibilities

* Apply machine learning and data mining techniques to build models to improve search relevance, revenue, and user experience.
* Deep dive into the data to understand and apply patterns, while maintaining a sense of the big picture.
* Understand the differences in search and the advertising marketplace among different countries, and apply your understanding of the differences to tailor scoring and ranking models to each market.
* Work with other engineers and product teams to help deploy new search monetization technologies around the globe.
* Work closely with counterparts in many different countries.

Basic Qualifications

* Strong background in machine learning, data mining, computational linguistics, or information retrieval, including practical applications.
* Experience in applying algorithms to web-scale data sets.
* Solid statistical knowledge and intuition.
* Fluency in Python, Perl, or another scripting language. Experience in C or C++ a plus.
* Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly in working with geographically distributed teams.

Desired qualifications
* Ph.D. in computer science, statistics, mathematics, or equivalent.
* Minimum two years of industry experience.
* Fluency in one or more major European languages.
* Understanding of the issues in software internationalization and localization.
* Experience living and working overseas a big plus.

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