Software Engineer 2 Microsoft
Bellevue, WA

Job Description

Team Overview:

Entity Understanding team within Bing search engine is responsible for providing the most relevant answer to user queries related with the real-world entities like people, movies, songs, locations and more. It helps users find the facts about entities quickly without need for searching through web results.

Job purpose:

As part of this team, you will build / optimize machine learning models and integrate the models into the Bing ecosystem to help understand user intent. You will need to ensure the entities and the facts are most relevant based on the user query. You will also need to make sure the services are scaleable, have high performance and availability to meet runtime search engine requirements.

The job provides an opportunity to:

* Enable millions of users reach information they are looking for directly
* Improve one of the most visible region of search results; fact answers and entity rail
* Work with world class engineers, researchers and leadership that will help you grow your career
* BS in Computer Science, Masters / PhD on machine learning, NLP focus is plus
* Outstanding C# and/or C/C++ coding skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Results-oriented free thinkers with ability to socialize and drive their ideas into the technology are highly desired

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

* Design and implement machine learning models that understand user's intent at large-scale
* Refine implementation based on operational performance
* Troubleshoot and debug production issues
* Collaborate with senior technical leaders and researchers across teams as you tackle the task of bringing together all the pieces to provide users with a game changing, revolutionary experience.