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Data Scientist
About Us
The Advertising Data Systems team at Yahoo is responsible for providing fast, clean, and relevant data for Yahoo’s advertising businesses. As data availability and scale has risen, there is a demand for providing relevant insights and models to our sales and business partners at scale.
About The Position
This role will build on top of our world-class advertising data systems to drive new insights around campaign effectiveness, sales forecasting, and advertising platform robustness. The scientist will leverage the latest machine learning and data science techniques to produce validated solutions for us in our advertising platforms to help drive revenue and sales.
Your Day
You will spend your days doing things like:
- Exploring large data sets for relationships, insights, and anomalies
- Building machine learning models to explain the past or predict the future
- Incubating data science and machine learning tools for use in the organization
- Working with business leaders and engineers to discuss potential new features or customer issues to investigate
- Helping your team figure out priorities and processes and what’s next
- Playing with your friends in some of our local games and contests, from trivia to table tennis, puzzle building, escape rooms and more
Key Requirements
- 3+ years of experience manipulating data sets and building statistical models, has a Master’s or PHD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or another quantitative field.
- Excel in abstract and statistical thinking while deeply grounded in solid business judgment
- Skilled in interpersonal communication and relationship; ability to explain complex analytical concepts to non-experts
- Data Science experience to solve classification and clustering problems on the web, perform information retrieval from unstructured and semi-structured data, build supervised and semi-supervised learning solutions
- Core foundation in data structures and algorithms and object-oriented programming
- Proficient programming skills in at least one of the following languages and frameworks: Java, Python, R
- Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop (Pig/Hive), Spark, or other related technologies
To apply, please email your resume to resume-champaign-datascience@oath.com.
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