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Yahoo! Search Marketing, a division of Yahoo! Inc., offers essential marketing services for companies doing business online. The group's search-based products and tools help businesses connect with highly motivated customers.

The Yahoo! Content Match team is one of the fastest growing teams at Yahoo! and is dedicated to build the best worldwide advertisement platform. As a Senior Matching Engineer, you will develop and improve matching engines to drive relevance of advertisements to page content and build an attractive on-line advertisement marketplace. You will create, improve, deploy innovative algorithms to understand the content of web pages and advertisements and provide the most accurate matching ads to pages. You will face new and exciting technical and scientific challenges in the areas of natural language processing, clustering, text classification and machine learning.

Job Responsibilities:

• Create and improve language processing, machine learning, text classification, and clustering algorithms.
• Work with the data team to define and implement data acquisition processes, and test methodology, test procedures and test sets, and create very large datasets.
• Collaborate with Yahoo! Research to design innovative text processing methods, and to design and conduct experiments.
• Integrate and deploy Matching Engines in the Content Match architecture.

• Demonstrated experience in computational linguistics, text classification, clustering, data mining, feature extraction, ontologies, statistical modeling, IR/IE, machine learning.
• Proven background in working/building/managing very large datasets.
• Mature team player able to absorb divergent, possibly conflicting ideas and find the optimal solution.
• Creative, flexible, and curious thinker with broad experience from which to draw novel solutions and new solution patterns.
• Strong C/C++ coding skills.
• Like to work with a fast paced, highly talented team of engineers.
• Ability to communicate designs both verbally and through writing.

• 2+ years of experience in machine learning or language processing.
• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or a related area.

Contact:
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to careers@yahoo-inc.com with the ID RX1000020125 in the Subject line

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