| The Ranking team develops the components that predict in a fraction of a second which of our 5 billion web documents will best answer a user's query. It is one of the highest impact and most technically challenging projects you will find anywhere in our industry. In collaboration with Microsoft Research, we explore cutting edge techniques from statistics, information retrieval, machine learning, and computational linguistics to attack this problem. The ideal candidate will combine strong software engineering skills with a solid background in one or more of these disciplines. Enthusiasm for reviewing the latest research, inventing new techniques, and doing rigorous experimental validation is required. Foreign language skills are also a plus.
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