Research Intern - Knowledge Graph Science

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in?
About Yahoo
Yahoo is a global media and tech company. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we also provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.
As a center of scientific excellence within Yahoo, Yahoo Research delivers both fundamental and applied scientific leadership through published research, product innovations and new technologies. We power the company's most significant products, supporting innovations in content discovery, search assistance, personal communication, commerce and advertising. Our work is innovative and impacts millions of users every day.
About the Team
Within Yahoo Research, the Knowledge Graph Science team develops the technologies and solutions behind the Yahoo Knowledge Graph and the various products built upon it across Yahoo. Our team's work has a direct impact on product quality and powers user experiences and services across Search, Media, Commerce, and Advertising.
Responsibilities
As a research intern in our team, you will apply and advance the state of the art in machine learning and artificial intelligence, and prototype novel solutions to problems related to structured data extraction, content understanding, graph mining, ontology alignment and normalization, entity reconciliation, semantic search, entity recommendation, and/or question answering.
Leveraging your scientific expertise, technical skills, and relevant data, you will:

• Identify, scope and formulate ill-defined problems
• Design metrics and experiments to analyze problems and measure results
• Review SOTA approaches, correlate them with the problems, and recommend solutions
• Prototype and evaluate solutions based on the agreed-upon goals, approach and metrics
• Generate intellectual property with patent applications and/or publications at relevant forums
• Work and communicate effectively with each partner to put research results into action

Requirements

• Pursuing aMaster or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field.
• Expertise in machine learning and experience in information extraction, natural language processing, knowledge graph, information retrieval or computer vision.
• Solid programming skills in languages such as Python, Scala, Java or similar.
• Experience with collaborative research, as evidenced through publications or projects.
• Strong communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills.

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US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.
If hired for this position in Colorado, the compensation range for this position is between $0.00 - $0.00. The compensation may vary depending on your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include additional incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, plus equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, retirement, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act.
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