– Diagnostics Intern –

Abbott Diagnostics, UIUC Research Park

Who We Are:

Abbott is a global healthcare company devoted to improving life through the development of products and technologies that span the breadth of healthcare. With a portfolio of leading, science-based offerings in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic pharmaceuticals, Abbott serves people in more than 150 countries and employs approximately 70,000 people.

Position Summary:

Abbott Diagnostics is seeking a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) student, to support the Diagnostics staff in a project specific to surface related phenomena, through the completion of literature searches and landscaping.

A Diagnostic Intern will be responsible for:

·         Partnering with staff members to conduct a comprehensive  literature search and obtain copies of the published research

·         Creating and organizing a database (MindMap) summarizing the key facts of each published research

·         Effectively communicating findings and progress to scientific mentor on a regular basis

·         An abbreviated executive summary and slide presentation

Qualifications:

·         Must be a current UIUC student

·         MS or Ph.D. student in Materials Science

·         Experience in systematic and comprehensive literature searching, is preferred

·         Ability to read and synthesize large amounts of technical information

·         Knowledge in the use of Microsoft Office applications

·         Works independently and responds well to feedback

·         Self-motivated, reliable, and able to meet deadlines

·         Excellent verbal/written English language skills

What We Offer to Our Student Employees:

·         Part-time, paid position at the UIUC Research Park Abbott office

·         Hourly wage commensurate with year in school

·         10-20 hours/week (exceptions made on a case-by-case basis)

·         Flexible work schedule, Monday-Saturday

Position Start Date:

·         Position to begin as soon as possible and funded through the 2014 Fall Semester

Application Deadline: July 1, 2014

Interested in Applying?

Candidates should complete an online application at www.abbott.com/careers, and under Search Jobs use the keywords, “University Science Park Opportunities.”  Additionally, candidates should send a copy of their resume or CV to abbottresearchpark@abbott.com and attention to Roger Antoniazzo and Dustin Starkey. 

NOTE:The position will begin as soon as possible over summer semester with an option to continue into the Fall 2014 and Spring 2015. 

To apply, please submit a copy of your resume along with a sample of graphic work to:

Dana Cohen

dfcohen2@illinois.edu

About Turn

Turn delivers real-time insights that transform the way leading advertising agencies and marketers make decisions. Our cloud applications and Internet-scale architecture work together to provide a complete picture of customers, execute cross-channel campaigns, and connect with a worldwide ecosystem of over 100 partners. Turn is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Amsterdam, Champaign, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney and São Paulo. For more information, visit turn.com or follow @turnplatform.

Please take a moment to view our award-winning culture video at: http://www.turn.com/working-at-turn/

About the Position

We are looking for an analytical and highly technical software engineer to assist in the development of our automated testing suite used to ensure that 1 million business decisions per second are made to the precise business logic required by our clients. We not only test the delivered product, but also facilitate and inspire the developers to test their code better. We manage production-like test environments and engineer to automate and optimize use of them.

You are potentially a great fit if you care about and enjoy

• Creating a controlled environment for an experiment
• Verifying a complex algorithm by preparing combinations of inputs and expected outputs
• Communicating with various parties to design better software that works as intended and continues to do so as products continually evolve
• Writing code every day and optimizing it to work more efficiently
• Simulating a complex end-to-end operation with orthogonal sets of input parameters
• Using a systematically mathematical approach in asserting test results
• Assessing business logic in terms of business values

And if you dislike

• Poorly defined product requirements
• Poorly written code that is vulnerable to failure
• Software defects that impact business profitability and growth

As a member of the Engineering in Test team, you will be responsible for

• Designing and developing our test automation framework to enable end-to-end testing of our online platforms
• Creating new feature test plans – Review product requirement documents, design documents, and communicate with product team and developers to build test plans
• Implementing test plans – In a controlled test environment, carefully track advertising campaigns that simulate a miniature ecosystem of the online advertising landscape
• Automating test plans – Write automated tests utilizing Turn’s test automation framework based on TestNG and Selenium to generate controlled ad serving impressions/clicks/actions, and statistically analyze and report results
• Driving continuous improvement of test coverage – Review product defects reported by clients or client services and incorporate insights into test plans.
• Creating documents that will be used as working specifications as well as training materials.

Must haves

• 1-3+ years in software development or in QA testing
• Solid knowledge of CS such as data structures and design patterns
• Team oriented, bright, creative, cooperative, and an enthusiastic problem solver
• Able to quickly understand technical and business requirements and be able to translate these into practical test plans
• Documentation skills to accurately represent a complex knowledge set
• Programming experience with Java, C++ or C#
• Solid knowledge of scripting with Python or Perl
• A degree in Computer Science or other engineering discipline
• Experience with source control (cvs, subversion, or git)
• Proficiency in Linux environments and shell scripting

Nice to haves

• Data analysis skills and experience in simulations
• Experience with API testing and tools such as soapui
• Experience with automation tools such as selenium or watir
• Experience with load testing and tools such as load runner

Location: Champaign, Illinois; On the University of Illinois campus in the Research Park

In addition to our great environment, we offer a competitive base salary, bonus program, stock options, employee development programs and other comprehensive benefits. Please send a cover letter along with your resume when applying to the position of interest located at Turn.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No phone calls and no recruiting agencies, please.

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval systems.

We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

All the engineers at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from their achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit.  All of our engineers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including several with doctorates

• Experience working with Unix or Linux systems

• Excellent debugging and testing skills

• Excellent knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry

• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems

• Solid written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills

• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment

• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

While the programming languages we use depend upon the specific domain requirements of each assignment, most of our engineers use languages such as Java, C++, Perl, Python, and Pig, an SQL-capable scripting language.

At the Champaign site we have open positions on several software development teams including those that do data collection and delivery, back-end data processing, database storage and retrieval, and front-end user interfaces, both web-oriented and programmatic.  The exact set of skills needed for each of these teams differs slightly.  Specifically, in addition to the required characteristics listed above, the ideal candidates for each of our teams would also have the following capabilities…

For the data collection and delivery team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    System performance analysis skills

·    Experience working with networking software such as HTTP, FTP, and TCP

For the back-end/data processing teams

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Python scripting language

·    Experience with Hadoop or other Cloud computing or distributed programming environments

·    The ability to work with data sets using standard SQL techniques

For the database team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    Experience with database programming including SQL languages

·    Knowledge of database systems including database maintenance and optimization techniques

For the front-end/user interface team

·    The ability to use modern front-end development languages like JavaScript and HTML5

·    Experience developing web browser interfaces to databases

·    Understanding of Application Programmatic interfaces to databases

If any of these describe you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.

Yahoo Software developers – all levels, multiple openings

Please send resumes to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval systems.

We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

All the engineers at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from their achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit.  Some of our engineers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including some with doctorates
• Excellent debugging and testing skills
• Excellent knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry
• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem solving, multi-tasking skills
• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment
• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

While the programming languages we use depend on the specific domain requirements of each assignment, most of our engineers use languages like Java, C++, Perl, Python, and Pig, an SQL-capable scripting language.

At the Champaign site we have open positions on several software development teams including those that do data collection and delivery, back-end data processing, database storage and retrieval, and front-end user interfaces, both web-oriented and programmatic.  The exact set of skills needed for each of these teams differs slightly.  Specifically, in addition to the required characteristics listed above, the ideal candidates for each of our teams would also have the following capabilities…

For the data collection and deliver team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    System performance analysis skills

·    Experience working with networking software such as HTTP, FTP, and TCP

For the back-end/data processing teams

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Python scripting language

·    Experience with Hadoop or other Cloud computing or distributed programming environments

·    The ability to work with data sets using standard SQL techniques

For the database team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    Experience with database programming including SQL languages

·    Knowledge of database systems including database maintenance and optimization techniques

For the front-end/user interface team

·    The ability to use modern front-end development languages like JavaScript and HTML5

·    Experience developing web browser interfaces to databases

·    Understanding of Application Programmatic interfaces to databases

If any of these describe you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.

Are you passionate about creating simple user experiences for complex domains?

Come join the Yahoo! Ads and Data design team.  

Your Responsibilities:

• Leading the definition of great UX throughout the product lifecycle, from initial explorations to final deliverables
• Ensuring high standards of usability, consistency and clarity in design
• Developing and presenting your design ideas
• Using data to inform design and working with research partners to understand and interpret user feedback
• Working within an established Design Language (but also be proactive about identifying opportunities to expand the design language / pattern library)

Our Requirements:

• 5+ years working in a fast-paced environment in complex domains
• MS/BA/BS in HCI or related field
• Solid understanding of UX design principles
• Knowledge of core design tools and familiarity with current Web technologies and Web application UI paradigms
• Expert JS, CSS and HTML presentation layer development skills a HUGE plus
• Killer visual and interactive design skills in an Adobe friendly environment
• Strong, clean visual design sense
• Mad wire framing skills! (Graph paper provided)
• The ability to understand client goals/objectives and make recommendations to design/transform the web site to meet them.
• Must be self-motivated. Independently manage time, prioritize, manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent analytic ability and effective problem solving skills
• A talent for diplomatic discussion: the ability to listen, convince and collaborate in a cross-functional environment
• Online design portfolio demonstrating a strong, clean design sense

DESCRIPTION:

The Yahoo Champaign Hadoop team is looking to hire back-end and front-end developers at all levels including: new college hires and experienced software engineers.

Please send resumes to resume-hadoop@yahoo-inc.com

ABOUT YAHOO!

Yahoo! is the premier digital media company. We deliver your world, your way by creating deeply personal digital experiences that keep more than 700 million people connected to what matters most - across devices and around the globe. And it's the Yahoos behind the scenes who make this all possible. We are energetic, idea-driven people who are passionate about shaping the future of the digital world. So if this sounds like you, come show us what you've got.

In this role you would be working on developing the next generation Hadoop stack. Hadoop is the de-facto operating system for the worldwide cloud computing industry. Yahoo! is the birthplace of Hadoop and has the largest Hadoop install in the world. The server count has grown from a few hundreds to over 30,000. We have over 400,000 cores and that process nearly 300PB of data spread over 20 clusters.

We are looking for experienced and motivated software engineers to help us build a highly scalable and robust next generation Hadoop stack. The qualified engineer would work on one or more components of the Hadoop stack including Core (Common, Mapreduce, YARN, HDFS), Pig, HCatalog, Oozie, Hive, Hbase, and overall Hadoop performance, Qualified engineers also might work on other open source projects like Storm, Spark, and Shark helping us drive the real time and iterative use cases.

If you have strong distributed systems background, love to solve complex and challenging problems, can work independently, and want to participate in some of the most exciting open source projects, we want to hear from you!. If you want to learn about Hadoop and get a deep understanding of cloud computing, this is the job for you.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

* Strong experience in building highly scalable systems in Java on Unix

* Experience with databases, data mining, and storage systems

* Strong in algorithms, and data structures

* Experience with development of distributed, low cost, highly scalable, and highly available server systems

* Excellent problem solving, debugging and testing skills

* Must have strong verbal and written communication skills

* Must have strong knowledge and keen interest in emerging tools and technologies in the industry

Preferable Job Qualifications:

* Experience in open source development 

* Knowledge of Hadoop internal (Core, Pig, Oozie, Hive, Hbase, Hcat)

* Knowledge of Storm, Spark, Shark

* Computer Science, Computer Engineer, or equivalent degree

Please send resumes to resume-hadoop@yahoo-inc.com

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval systems.

We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

All the engineers at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from their achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit.  All of our engineers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including several with doctorates

• Experience working with Unix or Linux systems

• Excellent debugging and testing skills

• Excellent knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry

• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems

• Solid written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills

• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment

• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

While the programming languages we use depend upon the specific domain requirements of each assignment, most of our engineers use languages such as Java, C++, Perl, Python, and Pig, an SQL-capable scripting language.

At the Champaign site we have open positions on several software development teams including those that do data collection and delivery, back-end data processing, database storage and retrieval, and front-end user interfaces, both web-oriented and programmatic.  The exact set of skills needed for each of these teams differs slightly.  Specifically, in addition to the required characteristics listed above, the ideal candidates for each of our teams would also have the following capabilities…

For the data collection and delivery team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    System performance analysis skills

·    Experience working with networking software such as HTTP, FTP, and TCP

For the back-end/data processing teams

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Python scripting language

·    Experience with Hadoop or other Cloud computing or distributed programming environments

·    The ability to work with data sets using standard SQL techniques

For the database team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    Experience with database programming including SQL languages

·    Knowledge of database systems including database maintenance and optimization techniques

For the front-end/user interface team

·    The ability to use modern front-end development languages like JavaScript and HTML5

·    Experience developing web browser interfaces to databases

·    Understanding of Application Programmatic interfaces to databases

If any of these describe you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.

Location: Champaign, IL

Title: Product Manager

Yahoo’s Advertising and Data team is responsible for the technology platforms that power all aspects of digital advertising on Yahoo and partner sites.  Yahoo powers daily habits for 800MM monthly users and digital adverting is an integral part of the user experience. Yahoo generates enormous wealth of data, which are processed by scalable Big Data systems. Data collected is used to make critical decisions on what Ads will be served, marketplace health, reporting, billing & payments etc.

The Advertising and Data Product team in Champaign is focused on building Data/Analytics products that provide actionable data/insights, which enable better and faster decisions for Yahoo Advertisers and Publishers. Working closely with Engineering teams, the Data & Advertising Product Managers work to break down complex Advertising initiatives into actionable data/analytics that can be surfaced to the customers. The customers of these data/analytics products range from Yahoo sciences/marketplace teams that build models to provide better ads to Yahoo users to reporting/analytics teams that provide insights to Yahoo Advertiser & Publishers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the full product lifecycle from conception, requirements definition, through to launch.
• Communicate product vision, objectives and requirements across Yahoo stakeholders position your product for success
• Prioritize, plan and balance customer requests.
• Drive investigations into business and operational issues that have a direct impact on performance, revenue and recommend solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field is a must.
• 2+ years owning and managing products from concept stage to launch is a must.
• Technical, Analytical and problem-solving abilities with a strategic focus.
• Facilitate working in a cross-functional, geographically dispersed organization.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills with both business and technical teams
• Minimum of two years experience building large scale, enterprise-level software in engineering capacity is preferred. 
• Familiarity with Digital Advertising concepts is a plus.
• MBA is preferred.
• Knowledge about BIG Data technologies/platforms like Hadoop etc. is a plus

Yahoo Software developers – all levels, multiple openings

Please send resumes to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval systems.

We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

All the engineers at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from their achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit.  Some of our engineers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including some with doctorates
• Excellent debugging and testing skills
• Excellent knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry
• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem solving, multi-tasking skills
• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment
• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

While the programming languages we use depend on the specific domain requirements of each assignment, most of our engineers use languages like Java, C++, Perl, Python, and Pig, an SQL-capable scripting language.

At the Champaign site we have open positions on several software development teams including those that do data collection and delivery, back-end data processing, database storage and retrieval, and front-end user interfaces, both web-oriented and programmatic.  The exact set of skills needed for each of these teams differs slightly.  Specifically, in addition to the required characteristics listed above, the ideal candidates for each of our teams would also have the following capabilities…

For the data collection and deliver team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    System performance analysis skills

·    Experience working with networking software such as HTTP, FTP, and TCP

For the back-end/data processing teams

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Python scripting language

·    Experience with Hadoop or other Cloud computing or distributed programming environments

·    The ability to work with data sets using standard SQL techniques

For the database team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    Experience with database programming including SQL languages

·    Knowledge of database systems including database maintenance and optimization techniques

For the front-end/user interface team

·    The ability to use modern front-end development languages like JavaScript and HTML5

·    Experience developing web browser interfaces to databases

·    Understanding of Application Programmatic interfaces to databases

If any of these describe you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.

Yahoo Software developers – all levels, multiple openings

Please send resumes to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval systems.

We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

All the engineers at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from their achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit.  Some of our engineers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including some with doctorates
• Excellent debugging and testing skills
• Excellent knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry
• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem solving, multi-tasking skills
• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment
• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

While the programming languages we use depend on the specific domain requirements of each assignment, most of our engineers use languages like Java, C++, Perl, Python, and Pig, an SQL-capable scripting language.

At the Champaign site we have open positions on several software development teams including those that do data collection and delivery, back-end data processing, database storage and retrieval, and front-end user interfaces, both web-oriented and programmatic.  The exact set of skills needed for each of these teams differs slightly.  Specifically, in addition to the required characteristics listed above, the ideal candidates for each of our teams would also have the following capabilities…

For the data collection and deliver team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    System performance analysis skills

·    Experience working with networking software such as HTTP, FTP, and TCP

For the back-end/data processing teams

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Python scripting language

·    Experience with Hadoop or other Cloud computing or distributed programming environments

·    The ability to work with data sets using standard SQL techniques

For the database team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    Experience with database programming including SQL languages

·    Knowledge of database systems including database maintenance and optimization techniques

For the front-end/user interface team

·    The ability to use modern front-end development languages like JavaScript and HTML5

·    Experience developing web browser interfaces to databases

·    Understanding of Application Programmatic interfaces to databases

If any of these describe you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.

Yahoo Software developers – all levels, multiple openings

Please send resumes to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval systems.

We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

All the engineers at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from their achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit.  Some of our engineers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including some with doctorates
• Excellent debugging and testing skills
• Excellent knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry
• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem solving, multi-tasking skills
• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment
• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

While the programming languages we use depend on the specific domain requirements of each assignment, most of our engineers use languages like Java, C++, Perl, Python, and Pig, an SQL-capable scripting language.

At the Champaign site we have open positions on several software development teams including those that do data collection and delivery, back-end data processing, database storage and retrieval, and front-end user interfaces, both web-oriented and programmatic.  The exact set of skills needed for each of these teams differs slightly.  Specifically, in addition to the required characteristics listed above, the ideal candidates for each of our teams would also have the following capabilities…

For the data collection and deliver team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    System performance analysis skills

·    Experience working with networking software such as HTTP, FTP, and TCP

For the back-end/data processing teams

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Python scripting language

·    Experience with Hadoop or other Cloud computing or distributed programming environments

·    The ability to work with data sets using standard SQL techniques

For the database team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    Experience with database programming including SQL languages

·    Knowledge of database systems including database maintenance and optimization techniques

For the front-end/user interface team

·    The ability to use modern front-end development languages like JavaScript and HTML5

·    Experience developing web browser interfaces to databases

·    Understanding of Application Programmatic interfaces to databases

If any of these describe you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.