Working Title: Linguist II – German
Location: Burlingame / Redmond
Client: Meta – Facebook.
Linguist II – German
We are looking for a Linguist to help us develop language components for a variety of voice-enabled technologies and products. We are seeking candidates with native or near-native fluency in German with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, data synthesis and data annotation tasks, translation-localization and ML model improvements.
Summary:
The main function of a Linguist is to determine Assistant data needs and setting strategic vision for data-based model and product improvements.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
- Build datasets, run, and modify data pipelines, and train, analyze, evaluate machine learning models.
- Build rules in rule-based systems and improve data quality/coverage with scripts when needed to improve ML models. .
- Clearly communicate with project stakeholders.
- Identify best practices and improve procedures across data systems.
- Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams, conversation designers, researchers, engineers, and product managers to improve a digital assistant.
- Share work and give feedback to teammates.
- Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, translation, localization, and annotation efforts
- Create annotation systems and guidelines
- Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models
- Assess model and data quality
- Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses
Skills:
- Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and other areas of linguistics.
- Experience of analyzing language data, solving language issues.
- Intermediate Python, SQL skills and solid Regex knowledge.
- Self-motivated and stay on top of owned areas proactively.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Team player and comfortable with fast-paced workflow.
- Take responsibility for task completion and schedule and be diligent to achieve the goals.
- Able to work in not-fully-defined projects/space and proactively debug and seek out solutions.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
- Native or advanced language skills in German is a must.
- Intermediate/advanced language skills on Italian, India languages, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese is a plus.
Must-Have Skills
- SQL and Python
- Language skills: German
- Increasing. / Speeding things by this much, Resume should be more quantitative
Nice-to-have Skills
- other language skills like Italian, India languages, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese