LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and every day millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the world’s workforce in ways no other company can. We’re much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology.
We are looking for applied research engineer interns and scientist interns to work on our massive semi-structured text, graph and user activity data sets. Build highly scalable, highly performant social graph engines, state-of-the-art full-text search engines, and platforms for recommendation and applied data analytics. You will utilize data mining, information retrieval, machine learning and perfect your strong systems orientation skills.
Responsibilities:
– Work with BIG data, crunching millions of samples for statistical modeling, data mining, recommendation, or search relevance solutions
– Write production quality code and influence the next generation of LinkedIn’s systems
– This is a full-time internship role that will take place between May – September 2019
Basic Qualifications:
– Currently pursuing a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D in computer science, statistics, mathematics, electrical engineering, machine learning, or related technical field and returning to the program after the completion of the internship
– Expected to complete degree by July 2021 or earlier
– Hands-on experience with machine learning, data mining, or statistics
Preferred Qualifications:
– Excellent programming skills
– Experience or desire to learn Hadoop
– Strong command of algorithms and data structures
– Expertise in clustering, collaborative filtering, and classification techniques (Naïve Bayes, SVM, NN, Boosting Methods, etc.)