As we strive to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, etc., we are excited to share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.

One particular organization in Redmond, Washington is looking for a Director of Strategic Alliances Requisition. Microsoft’s Technology and Research is looking for individuals to develop an advanced enterprise focused search experience to improve the customer’s engagement by reducing the support cost, and improve customer’s satisfaction. They are looking for a “passionate, creative, analytical and experienced individual who loves search, information extraction, machine learning and shipping fast at massive scale.”

You would be responsible for designing and developing enterprise knowledge extraction algorithms such as product/service extraction, acronym mining, entity definition mining, entity semantic concept mining, machine learning algorithms on free text data, data ingestion and serving systems. To learn more about this position and/or to apply, click here.

If you are looking to change positions, good luck on your search.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.