Language Engineer
Boston (Middlesex) IT development
Job description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is looking for a Language Engineer to join our Natural Language Processing (NLP) team. We are seeking a candidate with strong analytical skills and language technology experience to help us develop language components for a variety of Amazon products.
As a Language Engineer at Amazon, you will:
- Create sample language data for the target language
- Develop NLP components: write rules, build grammars/FSTs, create annotation systems or mappings for the target language
- Create tools and scripts to help optimize data processing workflows
- Contribute to the design of new features by extending existing annotation schemas to cover new areas in the target language
- Use modeling tools to bootstrap and test new functionalities
- Analyze system performance and identify areas for improvement
- Collaborate with other Language Engineers and Data Associate teams in data collection and development efforts
Desired profile
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's or higher degree in a relevant field (linguistics or language)
- 2+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing, semantics, or syntax
- Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup
- Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
- Experience in writing data processing scripts in e.g. Python
- Native or near-native fluency in a major non-English language