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WzTechno; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 45.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

An innovative company is seeking a Language Engineer to join their data engineering team. In this exciting role, you will work on speech and language solutions, supporting data collection and accuracy monitoring. Your analytical skills and language technology experience will be key in solving complex problems and contributing to new feature development. This dynamic environment offers the chance to collaborate with talented engineers while working on cutting-edge projects in the realm of language data processing. If you are passionate about language technology and thrive in a fast-paced setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifikationen

• 2+ years experience in computational linguistics or language data processing.
• Experience with language annotation and data markup.

Aufgaben

• Coordinate data collection efforts and monitor accuracy standards.
• Contribute to feature design by extending annotation schemas.

Kenntnisse

Analytical Skills

Language Technology

Data Analysis

Fluency in German

Scripting (Perl, Python)

Database Queries (SQL, R, Matlab)

Ausbildung

Bachelor's Degree in a Relevant Field

Tools

Unix

Modeling Tools

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description
Interested in Amazon Echo? Come work on it. We’re building the speech and language solutions behind Amazon Echo and other Amazon products and services. We’re working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us!
Amazon is looking for a Language Engineer to join our data engineering team in the area of speech and language data processing. We are seeking a candidate with strong analytical skills and language technology experience to help us measure, analyze and solve complex problems. In this role, you will support a range of data collection efforts, monitor accuracy and throughput standards, and be a key member in new feature development.
Responsibilities:

1. Provide day-to-day coordination of data collection efforts, including planning, scheduling, and reporting
2. Measure and analyze accuracy and throughput of annotated data
3. Contribute to the design of new features by extending existing annotation schemas to cover new areas
4. Write grammars and build FSTs
5. Use modeling tools to bootstrap new functionalities
6. Handle competing requests from a range of data customers
7. Collaborate with other Language Engineers in data collection and feature design efforts

Basic Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s or higher degree in a relevant field
2. 2+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing, semantics, or syntax
3. Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup
4. Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
5. Fluency in a major European language, such as German
6. Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, R, Matlab, etc.), and Unix
7. Experience programming in Perl, Python, or another scripting language

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Expertise in building ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic relation frameworks
2. Experience in writing grammars and building FSTs
3. Experience with statistical language modeling
4. Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
5. Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and very detail-oriented
6. Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
7. Willingness to support several projects at one time, and to accept reprioritization as necessary