Position Summary – Language Engineer
Join our dynamic team as a Language Engineer, where your linguistic expertise and technical skills will be pivotal in evaluating and enhancing text-to-speech (TTS) voices. In this role, you will engage in various tasks, including quality evaluation of TTS voices, annotation of text/audio pairs, and running internal scripts. Your proficiency in English and native or near-native fluency in Spanish and/or one of French, Italian, German, coupled with basic Python knowledge, will drive the success of our projects. This is an opportunity to contribute significantly to the quality of our customer’s TTS technologies and advance your career in language engineering.
What You Will Do
- Evaluate the quality of TTS voices.
- Assess the quality of annotations on TTS voices.
- Proofread materials and annotate properties issues in TTS voices.
- Run internal scripts to automatically evaluate TTS voice quality.
- Collaborate with the team to ensure high-quality deliverables.
- Learn to use automated internal tools for quality evaluation.
To Be Successful You Will Have
- Proficiency in English and native or near-native fluency in Spanish and/or one of French, Italian, German.
- Experience in participating in evaluations of text-to-speech voices as a tester.
- Ability to produce or evaluate quality annotations on text/audio pairs.
- Basic technical skills, including the ability to run scripts from the command line and basic Python knowledge.
- Willingness to learn and use automated internal tools for quality evaluation.
In Return, You Can Expect
- Ongoing career opportunities at a repeat Forbes and Newsweek-listed “Best Employer for Women”, “Best Employer for Diversity”, “Best Remote Employer”, “Best Large Employer”, and “Most Loved Workplace”.
- Career development and a career path designed to utilize your learned skills and ultimate professional passions in a world-leading company with over 25 years of world-leading experience.
Our People are Our Pride – Benefits and Perks
- Fixed term contract of employment (8 months) with employee benefits package according to your location, including day off on your birthday and day off for volunteering work.
- Exposure to various technology stacks, and opportunity to cooperate with one of the biggest companies in the world.
- Access to Lionbridge’ Employee Wellness Platform.
About Us
Lionbridge partners with brands to break barriers and build bridges all over the world. For over 25 years, we have helped companies connect with their global customers and employees by delivering translation and localization solutions in 350+ languages. Through our world-class platform, we orchestrate a network of passionate experts across the globe who partner with brands to create culturally rich experiences. Relentless in our love of linguistics, we use the best of human and machine intelligence to forge understanding that resonates with our customers’ clients. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Lionbridge maintains solution centers in 24 countries.
Breaking Barriers. Building Bridges.