# Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo

- Company: Yahoo
- What the company does: Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo! Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.yahoo.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States of America
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-11-04
- Apply by: 2026-12-19
- Apply: https://ouryahoo.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers/job/United-States-of-America/Principal-Applied-Research-Scientist---Generative-AI-and-NLP_JR0027182?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
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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


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