Software Engineer 2

Job description

What if your job description were simply “Make tomorrow better”? That’s the essence of roles within our Bing Team. Every day, we bring an insatiable curiosity to the table, challenging ourselves to reimagine what is and what can be. We build on what’s come before to create what’s next. We drive machine intelligence. We help shape the future. We empower billions of people around the globe.  

The emergence of online services has extended web as an information repository to where users can take actions and complete tasks end to end, such as buying movie tickets, reserving a restaurant table, borrowing books, and getting a taxi. This trend is accelerated by the mobile devices, equipped with the mobile web to keep user always online, multiple sensors to extend user inputs from texts to speech, images, location and connect online to offline, cloud computation to enable intelligent inferences and large scale data mining, and native apps to deliver compelling user experiences. With this, search engine's role is to connect people with services, turn intentions into actions lightning fast, and eventually make your mobile devices as your personal task assistant.

For this purpose, we, Bing Entity, Local and Action Experience team, to work on the following:

•      Understanding the intents of services as actions they enable and entities they act upon, via machine learning and big data analysis techniques

•      Having deep understanding for the entity in daily life, such as movie, song, restaurant, hotel. Satisfying user intent with the rich and relevant entity information

•      Enhancing the end2end user experience to help user complete task efficiently and conveniently

•      Shipping task completion features via web/app services on bing.com, Cortana, Bing search apps on iOS/Android, Spartan/Office/Skype/etc. and external search API

Skills & Qualifications

•      3+ years programming experiences in C++/C#.

•      BS degree in CS and related engineering field.

•      Strong coding, problem solving and data modeling & analysis skills.

•      Passionate and self-motivated.

•      Ability to drive cross team collaborations and ship production features in a fast-paced startup environment.

•      Superior communication skills, both verbal and written.

•      Customer/end result driven in design and development.

•      Preferred experiences in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, natural language processing, graph computation, and large scale distributed computation.

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression