>> 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.