>> INTERNSHIP AND FULL-TIME OPPORTUNITIES AT WALMARTLABS IN SILICON VALLEY >> >> WalmartLabs is the premier research and development labs for >> e-commerce at Walmart. The labs conducts a wide range of research in >> social media analysis, search engine and information retrieval, >> information integration and extraction, data mining, crowdsourcing, >> entity matching, big data, fast data, and mobile data. For example, >> the labs powers walmart.com, the second most-trafficked product search >> engine in the world. It extracts and integrates data from a wide range >> of sources to build giant product catalogs. It processes the entire >> twitter firehose in real time to extract product mentions and discover >> interesting events. The labs also mines a vast amount of traditional >> and social data to infer the interests of the users. It does all of >> these using many cutting-edge techniques including machine learning, >> crowdsourcing, and big-data technologies. (See for example >> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429589/walmarts-new-high-tech-labs-youre-not-in-arkansas-anymore/) >> >> Overall, the labs seeks to play a leadership role at the important >> emerging area of social and mobile e-commerce. In the past two years, >> it has aggressively sought to expand, by acquiring a range of startups >> and hiring top-notch graduates in databases, AI, information >> retrieval, optimization, and systems from top-ranked CS schools. >> >> Currently the labs has numerous openings for internship and full-time >> positions, with extremely competitive compensation. If you are >> interested in an internship (for Spring or Summer 2014) or full-time >> position (starting at any time) with the labs, please send a resume to >> AnHai Doan at anhaid at gmail.com. Any questions can be directed to that >> email address as well.