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About the role
Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- PhD (preferred) or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or a related field
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in applied machine learning and deep learning, with significant hands-on work in NLP and generative models at scale
- Demonstrated experience fine-tuning LLMs using LoRA or other parameter-efficient methods
- Experience with knowledge distillation, model compression, and/or training smaller models from larger teacher models
- Hands-on experience using LLMs for pseudo-labeling and synthetic data generation to create high-quality training datasets
- Experience building and evaluating LLM-based agents, including tool use, multi-agent orchestration, and reasoning workflows
More about this role
Yahoo Mail is the ultimate consumer inbox with hundreds of millions of users. It’s the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. With its beautiful design and lightning fast speed, Yahoo Mail makes reading, organizing, and sending emails easier than ever.
The Mail Intelligence team is the brain behind the inbox. We are responsible for building the next generation of platforms and services that enable Yahoo to deliver deeply personalized, intelligent, and context-aware experiences to hundreds of millions of users globally. We process billions of messages and manage data on a petabyte scale. Using cutting-edge AI algorithms and foundation models, we extract knowledge and interconnect information from diverse sources to simplify our users' lives. Building this knowledge provides many challenges in the areas of natural language processing, machine learning techniques, and petabyte-scale data processing. You will build tools and workflows to make it easier to manage and act on this vast information, applying your insights to build innovative consumer applications for Yahoo Mail.
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