Remote Linguistic MT Automation Specialist

UN News

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Hybrid

CHF 86,000 - 122,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Remote work possible

On-site Geneva meetings

One-year contract

Job summary

WMO seeks a consultant to retrain Microsoft Translator models and develop language tools to automate bitext download, cleaning, and training workflows. The role includes creating glossaries, evaluating results, and training staff.

The assignment is remote with required on-site Geneva meetings for reviews, lasting one year full time. Excellent English skills are required; knowledge of other official languages is advantageous.

Qualifications

University degree in information technology, data science, computer science, language technology or related field.
Experience in training and retraining machine translation models (Microsoft Translator preferred).
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft applications (Azure, SharePoint, Forms, Power Automate, VBA).
Expertise in Python and similar programming language; ability to document processes and provide training.

Responsibilities

Develop macro/script tool to download WMO bitexts from eLUNa for 2024–2026 language pairs.
Create a database of downloaded bitexts for MT training across six languages.
Develop tooling to clean bitexts (deduplication, misalignment fixes, etc.).
Retrain Microsoft Translator models and the reverse directions; evaluate results.

Skills

MT retraining

Python scripting

MS tools

Database design

Documentation

Education

University degree in IT/CS/Language Tech

Tools

Python

Power Automate

SharePoint

VBA

Job description

The assignment is remote with required on-site Geneva meetings for reviews, lasting one year full time. Excellent English skills are required; knowledge of other official languages is advantageous.

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