[Nlp-ir] jobs at Ask Jeeves

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From: Tiffany Felicienne [mailto:tfelicienne at askjeeves.com] 
Subject: Jobs at AskJeeves, New Jersey, California, New York (USA),
Dublin (Ireland)

 

Ask Jeeves is looking for talented PhD's in Computer Science or related
areas with a strong research background and experience in information
retrieval, software systems, and data mining to help develop our next
generation search engine.  Ask Jeeves seeks to hire only the best and
the brightest to help meet today's exciting technology challenges in
dealing with billions of web documents and large scale computer clusters
with thousands of servers. Positions at all levels are available at
various locations including New Jersey, California, New York, and
Dublin, Ireland (applicants must have the legal right to work in
specified locations.)

 

For more information, please see our website at www.ask.com
<http://www.ask.com/>  and www.teoma.com <http://www.teoma.com/>  and
visit our careers section.  You may also send apply online to
http://www.askjeevescareers.com/askjeeves/jobboard/default.asp. For
recent graduates, please attach an unofficial transcript. Ph. D.
students are strongly encouraged to apply. We look forward to your
interest in becoming part of the Ask Jeeves team.  

 

Examples of some current open positions as of 3/25/05:

 

* DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, RELEVANCY

Location: Piscataway, New Jersey

This challenging position will be responsible for the overall management
of relevancy for developing next generation search technology. The
successful candidate will have total responsibility for ensuring
relevancy through developing cutting edge algorithmic and measurement
techniques for web search and ranking.



Responsibilities:

*	Drive technical projects in developing and evaluating algorithms
and software for Internet search and information retrieval. 
*	Track and classify relevancy issues. 
*	Provide leadership for a group of developers. Mentor and advise
their growth and technical development. 
*	Drive the development of relevancy measurement criteria
including quantitative data points. 
*	Devise relevancy testing methodology and evaluation tools. 
*	Create customized solutions to evaluate unique aspects of engine
behavior. 
*	Develop a comprehensive strategic roadmap and plan for relevance
which advances relevancy algorithms and test process with quantitative
and qualitative goals. 
*	Interact with other departments and teams for technology
communication.

 

* SOFTWARE ENGINEER, INTERNATIONAL

Location: Piscataway, New Jersey; Dublin, Ireland

Summary Description:
Design, implement and maintain search engine software dealing with
internationalization and content analysis

Responsibilities:

*	Engineer key internationalization and localization software
algorithms including language / character set id 
*	Interface with vendors and provide internal support for external
libraries used in internationalization and localizaiton 
*	Evaluate localization requirements from product management and
customers 
*	Work with engineers in core teams, information analysts, and QA
team to resolve internationalization/localization problems 
*	Organize and present status of international software
development 
*	Interface with offline processing software team, extract
information and provide support for content analysis team

* SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, INTERNET SEARCH

Location: Piscataway, New Jersey

Summary Description
Ask Jeeves, Inc. is seeking qualified candidates for the position
Software Engineer to work at our Piscataway, NJ location. The Software
Engineer will develop and implement a large scale data processing system
in a distributed environment. The development tasks involving
implementing computer algorithms for Internet search and document
analysis using data mining technology, analyze data to improve relevance
of search results, and scale up computer algorithms to very large data
sets.

Responsibilities:

*  Develop software components for downloading large amount of web pages
in short period of time

*  Develop software components understand the syntax and semantic of web
documents

*  Develop software components for processing large amount of web
documents in a distributed environment

*  Develop tools and utilities to track progress and provide statistics




* SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SEARCH ENGINE DEVELOPMENT

Location: Piscataway, New Jersey

Ask Jeeves, Inc. is seeking qualified candidates for the position
Software Engineer to work at our Piscataway, NJ location. The Software
Engineer will develop and implement a large scale data processing system
in a distributed environment. The development tasks involving
implementing computer algorithms for Internet search and document
analysis using data mining technology, analyze data to improve relevance
of search results, and scale up computer algorithms to very large data
sets.

Responsibilities:

*	Develop reliable and scalable software programs that can deal
with huge amounts of data in real time 
*	Develop software components for monitoring, automatic repairing
of large clusters of machines 
*	Develop tools and utilities to track progress and provide
statistics


* SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, DESKTOP

Location: Los Gatos, California

Summary Description:

Ask Jeeves, Inc. is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Sr.
Software Engineer to work at our Los Gatos location. The Software
Engineer will develop C++ object orientated software and algorithms for
search and indexing engines. This person will develop search algorithms
and indexing software to run on home and end-users personal computers.

Responsibilities:
Work with team members to understand and develop on a large scale code
base project. Create new algorithms for search technologies that take
into account small memory foot prints and low CPU resource usage.Take
ownership of large C++ object orientated projects

* USER INTERFACE ENGINEER, DESKTOP SEARCH

Location: Los Gatos, California

Ask Jeeves, Inc. is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Sr.
Software Engineer to work at our Los Gatos location. The Software
Engineer will develop user interfaces using C++/MFC framework and other
technologies, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript etc. 

Responsibilities:

*	Work with team members to understand and develop on a large
scale code base project. 
*	Develop highly polished UI controls and application frameworks
to interface with back end search technologies for client desktop
software.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, BLOGLINES

Location: Los Gatos, California

Summary Description:
Ask Jeeves, Inc. is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Sr.
Software Engineer to work at our Los Gatos location. The Software
Engineer will develop and implement a large scale data processing system
in a distributed environment, in C++. The development tasks involve all
aspects of scaling and improving a high-volume end-user focused web
service.

Responsibilities:

*	Addressing scaling issues arising from storing large amounts of
data and serving a lot of web pages 
*	Maintain and improve RSS crawling and parsing processes 
*	Implement new functionality 
*	Develop tools and utilities to track progress and provide
statistics

More opportunities are listed at www.ask.com <http://www.ask.com/>  or
www.teoma.com <http://www.teoma.com/> .

 

You can get full details about the jobs listed above, including details
of skills and other requirements from the website
http://www.askjeevescareers.com/askjeeves/jobboard/default.asp