Software Engineer
Company: The MathWorks, Inc.
Location: Natick, MA
Posted on: June 27, 2017
Job Description:
Working under the direction of the Engineering Manager 1, will
be responsible for improving the quality of search results on
mathworks.com and MATLAB features by leveraging knowledge of search engines,
search algorithms, machine learning, and search relevancy; designing
and building search features that improve the customer's overall
experience; designing and building search features that improve the
search experience and relevancy; working with cross functional teams to
create requirements and UI design of search features; creating
technical specifications and working with Architecture to review those specifications; applying search engine optimizations to
SOLR/Lucene search engine to improve relevancy of the external site search;
and working with QE to validate search relevancy improvements
leveraging the Search Relevancy Testing Framework. Education and Experience: Master’s degree or higher (or foreign education equivalent)
in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology,
Computer Information Systems or Aeronautics and Astronautics and no
experience. OR Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in
Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Information
Systems or Aeronautics and Astronautics and five (5) years of experience
in job offered or five (5) years of experience in development or
technical support of web search functionality. Special Requirements: • Demonstrated expertise designing web search functionality
using Lucene and SOLR including writing SQL queries to transfer and
index data to SOLR. • Demonstrated expertise writing recommender systems to
design "related-content" functionality using Java and Ruby. • Demonstrated expertise in search engine and search
relevancy optimization using algorithm-based libraries -- PageRank,
Clustering and Classification. • Demonstrated expertise programming in Java, Ruby and
MATLAB following Agile development methodologies. [Expertise may be gained during Graduate program.] For the position listed above, interested candidates may search
by job code 17233 for specific job details and requirements and apply
online on the Careers Page at http://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs
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