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Posted 26 July 2007 - 02:14 PM
You’re the ideal candidate if you live to impress customers and have:
5+ years shipping scalable hosted server applications and web services coded in C++
A solid foundation in SQL - maybe even some query optimization expertise as a bonus
Expert software design skills are essential
BS in CS or equivalent experience is a must. PhD or Master Degrees are a big plus.
Contact: Stephanie Dela Fuente | Staffing Consultant | @ [email protected] with your resume and "Senior Developer - DIC" in the subject line.
Live Search Data Mining Team
The Live Search Core Relevance group is hiring extremely talented, highly motivated and productive individuals. You will be part of the Live Search Data Mining team, developing advanced and practical data mining, machine learning, Business Intelligence, and Customer Intelligence techniques for solving the hottest and most challenging problems in the world. Here, you have the right environment and strong support to drive your favorite features to solution. You are empowered to influence millions of end users while impacting Microsoft Online business. You will have the opportunities to work together with world class researchers and developers to stay in the front of advancing technology.
The goal of Live Search is to deliver the most relevant internet search to our customers by building the best search engine. To achieve this goal, data mining/machine learning/statistics/database techniques are critical. We have a huge amount of data ranging from user interaction logs, to web documents, to user feedback, to system performance data. This data contains valuable information for building the #1 system to serve people’s information needs. The data is also critical for making appropriate business decisions. The main challenge is to effectively process the data, discover information and put it into action. We are developing advanced and practical data mining and machine learning techniques to derive information (such as: understanding user intent, discovering patterns to improve search relevance and result ranking, detecting and filtering bot traffic, spam, and noise, measuring relevance and user satisfaction quickly and effectively, identifying new information needs from end users, identifying weak points of the search system, discovering system performance problems, measuring/understanding the health of the online business, and many many more). We also work on techniques to manage and process petabytes of data efficiently and effectively. You will have opportunities to use and contribute to a high performance super-parallel/distributed massive storage computer system.
Job Responsibilities include:
Analyze (including processing) a huge amount of data by using data mining, statistics, and database techniques. The goal is to measure/understand user behavior and business health, generate actionable insights for improving search systems, and increasing user satisfaction.
Research and exploration in the areas of data mining, machine learning, text mining, search system live measurement and monitoring, bot/spam traffic identification and filtering, etc.
Work with other teams in Live Search and other online business units on identifying problems in different areas where data mining/machine learning/statistics can help. Explore and develop solutions to these problems. Act as an expert in the area of data mining/machine learning/statistics to serve the fast growing needs of Live Search.
Develop techniques/algorithms/measurement for research and analysis work mentioned above.
Design and carry out experiments to evaluate research/development results and their real impact on Live Search production systems.
Design and develop software systems/solutions to push research and analysis results into production systems and generate impacts on very large number of users.
Qualifications:
Extensive knowledge and experience in at least one of the following areas: databases, data warehousing, OLAP, data processing (ETL).
Strong theory/algorithm background and very good understanding on how to apply advanced knowledge to solve real problems.
Solid experience in very large real world data processing/analysis especially with web data.
Superior communications skills, both verbal and written.
Ability to work independently and in a team to research innovative solutions to challenging business/technical problems.
Attention to detail and data accuracy.
Solid software design and development skills/experience with C/C++/C#/Perl/SQL (minimum 3 years, preferred: 5 years).
Experience in the areas of data mining, web mining, machine learning, statistics, user modeling, information retrieval, e-metrics/measurement is a plus.
Experience with SQL reporting services, visualization, scripting, and quick prototyping is preferred.
Experience/knowledge with various data analysis tools, data mining tools, and statistical packages is a plus.
Bachelor degree in computer science is required. Master degree/PhD in the area of data mining/machine learning/statistics/databases or related areas is preferred.
Contact: Stephanie Dela Fuente | Staffing Consultant | @ [email protected] with your resume and "Data Mining Team - DIC" in the subject line.
This post has been edited by skyhawk133: 26 July 2007 - 02:20 PM
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