NLP & Linguistics Software Engineer — Record Matching

Babel Street; Somerville (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Babel Street in Somerville, MA is seeking an NLP/Linguistics Software Engineer to join their Analytics Group. This execution-focused builder role handles NLP algorithms, search engines, and data science techniques to advance their analytics platform and its record matching functionality.

You will work with senior engineers to translate linguistic theory into production-ready features, optimize Elasticsearch components, and help ship scalable APIs for AI-native systems, with opportunities to grow

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, or related technical field.
• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Java or Python.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain analytics platform components, including record matching.
• Bridge linguistic theory with practical software features.
• Optimize search internals and data modeling with Elasticsearch.
• Collaborate in Agile sprint planning with senior engineers.
• Design scalable APIs and architectures for AI-native platform.

Skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, or related technical field

Tools

Java

Python

Elasticsearch

Job description

Babel Street in Somerville, MA is seeking an NLP/Linguistics Software Engineer to join their Analytics Group. This execution-focused builder role handles NLP algorithms, search engines, and data science techniques to advance their analytics platform and its record matching functionality.

You will work with senior engineers to translate linguistic theory into production-ready features, optimize Elasticsearch components, and help ship scalable APIs for AI-native systems, with opportunities to grow