PROLIM Global Corporation (www.prolim.com) is currently seeking Linguist II – German for the location of Burlingame / Redmond – Onsite with one of our Top clients.
Working Title: Linguist II – German
Location: Onsite, Burlingame / Redmond
Job ID: 58086-1
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 work flow.
• 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
Apply online for immediate consideration, please send your updated resume, and contact info via email subhas.pujar@prolim.com