[dbjapan] Yahoo! Beijing Labs seeking for Japanese speaking researcher

[Adam Jatowt <adam [at] dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Scientist - Japanese Speaking

About Yahoo!

Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online-in innovative and
imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo!. We do just that each and
every day, and you could too. After all, it's big thinkers like you
who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for
consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now's the time to show the
world what you've got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion
people.

Yahoo! Labs is pioneering the new sciences underlying the Web. As the
center of scientific excellence for Yahoo!, Yahoo! Labs delivers both
fundamental and applied scientific leadership through published
research and new technologies powering the company's products.
The Yahoo! Beijing Labs are looking for candidates with strong
analytical and software skills to join our team. You would help
improve the search query understanding and tagging algorithms for
Yahoo Japan.

Job Responsibilities:

* Apply probabilistic, machine learning and data mining techniques to
build models to improve relevance, revenue, and user experience.
* Deep dive into the data to understand and apply patterns, while
maintaining a sense of the big picture.
* Work closely with colleagues on the engineering team to put your
research results into action.
* Provide thought leadership to guide the direction of Yahoo! Japan
search query analysis products and services.

Required skills/qualifications:

* Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, statistics,
mathematics, or equivalent.
* Strong background in statistical modeling, machine learning and data mining
* Experience in data driven methods in computational linguistics,
information retrieval, speech recognition, machine translation, image
processing or other related fields
* Fluency in Python, Perl, or another scripting language.
* Fluent Japanese speaking.
* Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred skills/qualifications:

* Experience in C or C++ a plus

Contact person:
Xin Fan
email: xinfan [at] yahoo-inc.com