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The AWS Artificial Intelligence team is looking for a Language Engineer to join our science and data engineering team in the area of speech and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). 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 and annotation efforts, monitor accuracy, velocity and throughput, and be a key member in new feature development.
Core Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day coordination of data collection and annotation efforts, including planning, scheduling, and reporting
- Measure and analyze accuracy, quality and throughput of annotated data
- Contribute to the design of new data collection methods and new annotation schemas to cover new areas and languages
- Write grammars and build FSTs
- Collaborate with scientists and engineers on data collection and feature design efforts
- Handle competing requests from a range of data customers
Basic Qualifications
- Master’s or higher degree in Linguistics or a related field
- 4+ years of experience in computational linguistics, language data processing, psycholinguistics, semantics, or syntax
- Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup
- Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
- Fluency in a major European language, such as Spanish
- Experience with database queries (SQL) and data analysis scripting languages (R, Python, etc.), and using Unix shell scripts in the command line
Preferred Qualifications
- Ph.D. in a Linguistics or related area
- Experience with statistical methods and strong analytical skills
- Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
- Willingness to support several projects at one time, and to accept reprioritization as necessary
- Experience in writing grammars and building FSTs
Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.
Company – Amazon.com Services, Inc.
Job ID: A701157
Industry
- Computer Software
- Information Technology & Services
- Internet
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Functions
- Project Management
- Information Technology
- Product Management