Software Engineer – Search Intelligence (OAK) | Ask.com | Oakland, CA
Software Engineer – Search Intelligence (OAK)
(Location: Oakland, CA)
Us
Ask.com is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Software Engineer to work with the Answers and Search team at our Oakland, CA location. The Answers and Search Technology team has developed core technologies such as Answer Farms, Smart Answers and is responsible for the complete Ask.com Answers Technology suite. The Software Engineer will help develop our next generation answers and search technologies that will enable users to find direct answer for their questions. It’s an exciting and challenging mission with the issues such as learning the user intention, understanding the web data, question and answer extraction, question generation, and answer quality evaluation, 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
You have 2+ years of industrial experience for Masters Degree with focus on topics such as information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, and/or natural language processing. And a Masters Degree in CS or equivalent from accredited universities. PhD a plus.
Your Task
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Us
Ask.com is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Software Engineer to work with the Answers and Search team at our Oakland, CA location. The Answers and Search Technology team has developed core technologies such as Answer Farms, Smart Answers and is responsible for the complete Ask.com Answers Technology suite. The Software Engineer will help develop our next generation answers and search technologies that will enable users to find direct answer for their questions. It’s an exciting and challenging mission with the issues such as learning the user intention, understanding the web data, question and answer extraction, question generation, and answer quality evaluation, 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
- Improve existing Answer and Search Technologies for better relevance and coverage as well as better user experience.
- Actively participate in exploring key opportunities for next generation answer and search technologies, develop quick prototypes to demonstrate the product and develop scalable, reliable production systems.
- 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 have 2+ years of industrial experience for Masters Degree with focus on topics such as information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, and/or natural language processing. And a Masters Degree in CS or equivalent from accredited universities. PhD a plus.
Your Task
- Strong communication and technical documentation skills.
- Self-motivated and capable of working effectively in a highly dynamic and fast-paced team
- Agile development using SCRUM is a plus.
- Passion for utilizing open source frameworks and in contributing back to the community.
- Strong object oriented concepts and core Java knowledge
- Strong knowledge of Unix shell usage, tools, and scripting (bash)
- Solid understanding of core computer science fundamentals, high performance data structures and algorithms
- Capable of building stable, scalable, high performance production systems
- Experience with Hadoop technologies – HDFS, MapReduce.
- Experience designing and evaluating heuristics to deal with natural language a huge plus
- Experience with machine learning methods is a huge plus
- Experience with SOLR/Lucene is a big plus.
- Experience with NoSQL technologies such as HBase, Redis is a big plus.
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