Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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.

As a global email provider, Yahoo Mail is the ultimate Consumer Inbox with over 220 million monthly active users. It is the best way to access your email and stay organized from a computer, phone or tablet. We create technology that changes the internet while handling billions of inbound connections per day to manage trillions of messages requiring petabytes of efficient storage.

Be the best consumer email platform to help users run the business of their life.

The Mail Intelligence Org develops intelligent capabilities at scale to uncover interests, reveal habits, and personalize user journeys across Yahoo Mail and the entire Yahoo ecosystem.

We seek innovative, entrepreneurial, and passionate engineers dedicated to delivering exceptional user experiences. Your passion and ownership mindset are as vital as the high engineering standards, code quality, and world‑class architectural skills we uphold.

We manage billions of mail messages with advanced backend systems and algorithms, including NLP, GenAI, and ML techniques. Our infrastructure extracts information, creates enhanced content, and integrates diverse data sources to amplify key insights. This work presents rewarding technical challenges for high‑caliber engineers eager to tackle impactful problems.

Sounds Exciting? Then, come join us!!

• Contribute to Mail Intelligence Mission:
  Support the development of AI/ML capabilities that enhance user personalization and insights within Yahoo Mail and the broader Yahoo ecosystem.

• Innovate and Personalize:
  Assist in building scalable AI/ML solutions that identify user interests and habits, contributing to personalized user experiences.

• Data‑Driven Insights:
  Apply machine learning techniques and big data processing to derive insights from mail data, enhancing content and user knowledge.

• Tool and Workflow Development:
  Develop AI/ML tools and workflows to manage and utilize large datasets, supporting AI‑based infrastructure and analytics.

• Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with cross‑functional teams in the USA to integrate new AI/ML features and improve existing platforms, ensuring smooth user interactions.

• Commitment to Excellence:
  Maintain high engineering standards, focusing on code quality and architectural skills, while delivering optimal user experiences.

• Feedback and Recovery:
  Implement feedback loops and recovery paths to handle AI failures gracefully, ensuring user satisfaction.

• Balance Tradeoffs:
  Manage cost, quality, and speed tradeoffs in AI/ML solutions to optimize performance.

• Educational Background:
  You have a strong foundation in computer science, data science, or a related field, with a focus on machine learning and AI technologies.

• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  You are proficient in Python or Java and skilled in ML frameworks such as Huggingface, Tensor Flow, PyTorch, and Scikit‑learn. You have expertise in discriminative & generative AI, and model deployment (vLLM, Tensor
  
  RT‑LLM, Triton, ONNX runtime). You are familiar with AI tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Claude.

• Problem‑Solving Ability:
  You possess strong analytical skills and a knack for solving complex problems using data‑driven approaches.

• Collaboration:
  
  You are a team player who can work effectively with cross‑functional teams, including tech leads and architects, to deliver high‑quality solutions.

• Passion for Innovation:
  You are enthusiastic about leveraging AI/ML to drive innovation and enhance user experiences across Yahoo Mail and the broader ecosystem.

• Attention to Detail:
  You maintain high standards for code quality and are committed to delivering robust, scalable solutions.

• Continuous Learning:
  You are eager to stay updated with the latest advancements in AI/ML and apply them to improve Yahoo's products and services.

• Educational Requirement:
  Bachelor's degree in Computer…