Jobs

All positions are located in downtown Chicago

Individuals who fill this role will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of search-engine-related technologies.

• Information retrieval algorithms for relevance ranking. Develop metrics for measuring relevancy and implement benchmarks. Research, develop, and test new algorithms for discovering a user's intent.
• Computational linguistics. Research and develop new ways of understanding the structure of text, and how it can improve search results.
• Data mining, machine learning, and recommender systems. Develop new ways to exploit the data available in logs and e-commerce system, use it to understand user behavior, and develop new methods of suggesting items of interest.
• Spell correction. Research, measure and develop new algorithms for correcting user spelling errors.
• Content analysis. Understand the structure of documents and data, and develop lexers, tokenizers, and analyzers for exploiting it.
• Classification/categorization. Develop software for classifying documents and data and for performing entity extraction.
• Distributed search/distributed algorithms. Develop and implement ways of distributing the computational load when processing very large databases (VLDB).
• Faceted navigation. Develop user interfaces to improve the search experience by exploiting the structure inherent in data items.

Requirements:

• Masters in Computer Science, PhD preferred
• 2+ years non-academic software development experience
• Solid knowledge and experience in information retrieval and/or data mining technologies
• Solid knowledge of Java and J2EE technologies

Requirements:

• Computer Science degree
• 5+ years software development experience
• Experience supporting and implementing enterprise applications for customers
• Excellent communication skills, comfort in dealing with clients
• Solid knowledge of Java and J2EE technologies

Contact: Andrew Bleiman, ABleiman@dieselpoint.com