27.4883, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Amazon

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Subject: 27.4883, Jobs:  Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Amazon

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:15:29
From: Emma Bounty [ebbounty at amazon.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Language Engineer, Amazon, Massachusetts, USA

 
University or Organization: Amazon 
Job Location: Massachusetts, USA 
Job Title: Language Engineer
Job Rank: Language Engineer; Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


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.

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

Basic qualifications:

- Bachelor’s or higher degree in a relevant field
- 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
- Fluency in at least one foreign language
- Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, R,
Matlab, etc.), and Unix
- Experience programming in Perl, Python, or another scripting language

Preferred qualifications:

- Expertise in building ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic relation
frameworks
- Experience in writing grammars and building FSTs
- Experience with statistical language modeling
- Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
- Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and very detailed
oriented
- 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

Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority /
Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation



Application Deadline: 28-Feb-2017 (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/463080 
Contact Information:
	Emma Bounty 
	Email: ebbounty at amazon.com 


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