Yahoo! Search has dozens of openings for Engineers and Scientists with significant applicable experience. I’ve listed many of their openings.

Interested? You can apply to the jobs listed below by contacting Yahoo! Search Technology Recruiting at websearch-jobs@yahoo-inc.com. Please mention my name (in the interest of full disclosure, yes, I get a referral bonus) and include a list of the jobs that interest you and include an explanation of which previous experiences qualify you for those positions. Good luck!

Crawling and Indexing

The Crawling and indexing team designs, implements and deploys the clustered applications that retrieve, analyze and index the billions of documents in our web search engine. This requires large scale clustered applications. It also requires a focus on efficient document processing and graph tools.

Webmap Distributed Applications Support Engineer

• Scripting languages, C/C++, experience running large distributed applications on one of Condor/Beowulf/Slurm/PBS/MPI et. al. , linux/network administration

Siteowner Interfaces: Web Applications Engineer

• LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP/Perl/Python), Network administration, Large databases

Siteowner Interfaces: Systems Engineer

• C++/C, algorithms, data structures, Unix server development, multi-threaded app. design

Search Engine Core

The search engine core team executes thousands of queries/sec considering billions of indexed full text documents per query. This is a large distributed application! Good query execution requires relevance ranking, spelling, automatic summarization and a focus on high performance.

Senior Software Engineer – Search Core

• C/C++, Unix server development, project lead experience, algorithms, multi-threaded app. design

Search Cluster Automation Engineer

• Large systems automation and monitoring, OOP, Python, Perl, C++, custom build tools and UIs

Senior Software Engineer – Search Solutions

• C/C++, Unix server development, project lead experience, algorithms, multi-threaded app design

Senior Software Engineer – Search Runtime Infrastructure (multiple positions)

• C/C++, Unix server development, multi-threaded app. design

International Team

Our international team is focused on bringing our world class search technology to the world. This includes work on region and language specific technologies and also on building our global search platform. The platform initiative involves building presentation and document processing technologies that work well for all languages.

Senior Software Engineer – I18n Core Team

• C/C++, Unix server development, i18n preferred, fluency in one or more foreign language

Senior Software Engineer – Chinese Search Team

• C/C++, Unix server development, i18n preferred, fluency in Mandarin Chinese

Senior Software Engineer – Japanese Search Team

• C/C++, Unix server development, Perl/Python, i18n preferred, fluency in Japanese

Senior Software Engineer – European Search Team

• fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German or French required, C/C++, Unix server development, Perl, i18n preferred

Relevance and Metrics Teams

The web search problem is full of open research challenges. To address this we need researchers, scientists and engineers to attack some of the world’s largest problems in statistics, information retrieval, datamining, and machine learning. The relevance team focuses on applied research and development in these areas. The Metrics and Analysis team builds systems to collect and analyze the data needed to assess and improve our service.

Engineering Manager, Spelling Correction

• product, project, and research management, information retrieval, computational linguistics

Senior Software Engineer – Lexical knowledge base infrastructure and applications

• C/C++, STL, Perl/Python, linguistics, data mining

Senior data analyst (senior engineer)

• data analysis, data mining, statistics, Unix and Perl or other programming languages

Senior Search Relevance Engineer – Web Search International Relevance Team

• C/C++, Perl, Python, modeling, machine learning, computational linguistics, data mining

Senior Software Engineer – Automated Metrics and Process Tools

• Perl, PHP, MySQL, Linux, system automation, Internationalization

Search Marketing Solutions

Our search marketing solutions team works with web masters and businesses to make sure that relevant commercial content is included in our search results. The SMC team develops the reporting and account management applications that drive these solutions.

Sr. Software Engineer – Site Match Center

• Experience with large data-driven applications, Perl, Oracle, PL/SQL

Software Engineer – Site Match Center

• Perl, Javascript, HTML, Unix, SQL, algorithms, OOP