What is an Applied Scientist at Yelp?
As an Applied Scientist at Yelp, you sit at the critical intersection of machine learning, data engineering, and product strategy. Your work directly influences the millions of users who rely on Yelp to discover local businesses. By building sophisticated models that power search relevance, recommendation engines, and ad-targeting systems, you ensure that the right information reaches the right user at the exact moment they need it.
This role is inherently cross-functional, requiring you to translate complex business problems into scalable technical solutions. You will work closely with software engineers to deploy models into production environments and collaborate with product managers to define metrics that drive growth. Because of the massive scale of Yelp's data, you are expected to be as comfortable with algorithmic efficiency as you are with statistical rigor.




