Principal Search Engineer

By Tawny on June 2, 2009

JobID: BE645587

Location: Northern California

JobTitle: Principal Search Engineer

Salary: $120,000 – 150,000

Job Description:

(Job ID BE645587) The search group with our client is actively working on a number of interesting IR problems and is looking for people who can take a lead role in one or more of the following areas: information retrieval, text classification, machine learning, collaborative filtering and data mining. The ideal candidate will have a strong theoretical background in IR combined with successful hands-on experience developing and deploying large-scale, real-world systems.

Our client is looking for a dynamic Principal Search Architect to join their our top-notch development team and continually innovate and improve their e-commerce platform.

As a technology leader in e-commerce, they are constantly engaged in the most challenging and interesting development projects. They have an entrepreneurial small-team environment, where individuals’ innovative ideas are rapidly adopted and rewarded. You’ll see the results of your efforts in days or weeks, not years.

Responsibilities:

will work as part of a fast-paced web team and should be able to effectively lead and work in a team environment
will be behind the development and deployment of complex Web applications

Qualifications:

must have recent experience with in-house, open source or commercial IR systems
must have significant experience with high traffic, database-driven Web applications
must have significant experience with large scale, high performance systems
must have a strong background with Object-oriented design and implementation
must have a strong background in relational database design
must have experience with SQL, Oracle, JDBC, J2EE application servers, JSP and servlets
must have a minimum 8 years experience in software development with at least 3 year in Java programming
must have good communication skills
must have a Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science from a reputed US University
must be able to effectively lead and work in a team environment
must have a strong background in statistics
should have significant research experience in information retrieval, machine learning, or a related field
should have demonstrated contribution to a large-scale web search or e-commerce application
should have well-rounded experience with an emphasis on backend/server development
must have a passion for building great software