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JobsFrom: CMDate: 23 Oct 2009 Subject: Redmond, WA: Principal Software Development Engineer, Bing Data Mining Team at Microsoft The Bing Search Data Mining team inside the Infrastructure group of Bing Search is hiring extremely talented, highly motivated and productive Principal SDE. You will own the end-to-end scenarios in some areas such as analyzing data from all kinds of data sources (e.g. user behavior logs and feedback) to understand users, their usage of search and other online services, to diagnose problems the current search techniques have, drive user feedback data collection, design and develop experiments to gain deeper understanding on these topics, identify the rooms for further improving our search engine and user experience on it. You will be part of a very strong and fun team, conducting research and experiments, building data infrastructure, 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 and generating real impact. 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 Bing Search is to deliver the most relevant knowledge to our customers by building the best decision engine. To achieve this goal, data is critical, and data mining/machine learning/statistics/database techniques are the key. We have a huge amount of data ranging from user interaction logs, to web documents, to web index, to user feedback, to system performance data. This data contains valuable information for building the #1 system to serve people's information needs for helping them to make decisions. 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 exploring/developing advanced and practical 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 (cloud computation). Job Responsibilities include:
_Contact_: Please let me know when you have applied at: yvonnej@microsoft.com. Resumes received via email cannot be considered until you formally apply online.
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