Localization Academy

Linguist II – German

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

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