Job - Researcher / Engineer - Algorithms and Natural Language

[Yahoojobs]

Researcher / Engineer

Central London

 

Yahoo! are looking for a Researcher / Engineer with experience or substantial interest in search, categorisation, data mining, NLP, MLR and other technologies that can give our product a competitive advantage.

 

The research position is critical and an engaged individual can add huge value at the same time as having a great time collaborating and learning from other world class researchers across our client.

 

We are looking either for a seasoned Researcher or a highly talented person recently completing an MSc or PhD in a related discipline. We expect you either to have commercial programming skills or have learned to program while studying.

 

Yahoo is a leader in grid computing and you will learn to use their grid to perform calculations with huge amounts of data that would be otherwise impossible.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

Your prime responsibility will be to maintain and improve and develop research components that enable our client to handle and categorise data for millions of people. You will be liaising with the research teams around the world to collaborate, share information and evangelise on behalf of our product.

 

You will be excited by the prospect of developing complex algorithms and natural language processing technologies.

 

• You will be a team player, communicating and building relationships with people across the globe.

• You will be building highly-scalable and functional solutions and prototypes.

• You will have to learn quickly and enthusiastically.

• You will be proactive and self-driven.

• You will be working with the best and be given an opportunity to make a difference.

 

Skills Required

 

• Knowledge in several research fields.

• Experience in Perl or another scripting language.

• PhD/MSc or equivalent in a science/computing discipline.

• Intuitive understanding of computer and network architecture and operation, software performance trade-offs, and algorithm design.

• Java and experience of development, in a Unix environment.

• An understanding of Object Oriented programming principals.

• Knowledge of UML and technical specifications.

• Experience/Knowledge of working with source control systems.

 

If your application is successful in the first instance you will be required to attend an assessment centre in which your skills will be put to the test. Yahoo! is looking for the best.

 

You will be passionate, yet disciplined in nature, and possess the ability to influence and communicate at all levels and now’s the time to show the world what you’ve got. Put your ideas to work and help half a billion people get more from the internet than they ever imagined by applying now to yahoojobs@hudson.com.