Us
Ask.com is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Senior Software Engineer to work with the Search Intelligence team at our Oakland, CA location. The Search Intelligence team has developed core technologies such as Related Search, Search Suggestions, Query Classification, Question Generation etc. The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development team to develop our next generation search technologies. It’s an exciting and challenging mission with the issues such as learning the user intention, understanding the web data, question generation, analyzing user logs etc. You will be working with a highly talented team of hard core engineers using latest technologies and frameworks such as Apache SOLR, Hadoop, HBase, Redis to solve various problems.
The Role
- Lead junior engineers to develop high performance and scalable systems
- Improve existing Search Technologies for better relevance and coverage as well as better user experience.
- Actively participate in exploring key opportunities for next generation search technologies, develop quick prototypes to demonstrate the product.
- System evaluation and tuning: Actively participate in testing during the development cycle as well as testing the results data production, output evaluation and tuning for the best results.
You
You have 5+ years of experience with a focus on topics such as information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. You have a led a technical team in the past and you deliver high quality code fast. And a Masters Degree in CS or equivalent from accredited universities. PhD a plus.