Language Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

How often have you had an opportunity to be a founding member of a team solving significant customer problems through innovative technology? Our emerging technologies team, within Amazon’s Device organization (Amazon Echo, Fire TV, Fire Tablets, and more), is looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented individuals to join our fast paced, start-up environment to help invent the future. We solve significant customer problems in the consumer electronics space through devices, mobile applications, cloud services (AWS), computer vision, and machine learning.

As a Language Engineer, you will support a range of data collection efforts, monitor accuracy and throughput standards, and be a key member in new feature development. We are seeking a candidate with strong analytical skills and language technology experience to help us measure, analyze and solve complex problems.

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

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
· 2+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing, statistics, or data analysis.
· Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup.
· Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, R, Matlab, etc.).
· Experience with ontologies and other semantic meaning representation schemas.
· Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages.
· Experience in Python, Perl or another scripting language.
· Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and very detailed oriented.