30.1183, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Syntax: Language Engineer II, Amazon

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Subject: 30.1183, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Syntax: Language Engineer II, Amazon

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:12:49
From: Kathryn Hubbard Burr [kathburr at amazon.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Syntax: Language Engineer II, Amazon, Massachusetts, USA

 
University or Organization: Amazon 
Department: Alexa Entertainment
Job Location: Massachusetts, USA 
Web Address: https://tinyurl.com/yxlunrdv
Job Title: Language Engineer II
Job Rank: Language Engineer II; Other

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Syntax; Language Data Processing; Machine Learning Science


Description:

Are you a linguist with technical aptitude? Or are you an engineer with a
passion for (human) languages and linguistics? Do you want to transform the
way people enjoy music, radio, books and video? Come join the team that made
Prime Music, Spotify, Pandora, Live radio, Audible books, Kindle books,
Podcasts, Alexa on Fire TV and more available to Alexa customers. We are
innovating on and changing the way our customers interact with media services
and devices by building the speech and language solutions behind Amazon Echo
and other Amazon products and services.

Alexa Music is looking for a Language Engineer with experience in linguistic
annotation, ontologies, taxonomies and/or semantic schemas. In this role, you
will support new feature development by extending existing annotation schemas
to cover new concepts.

Specifically, the Language Engineer will:
- Design the natural language processing components of new Alexa experiences
and features by writing grammars and annotation specifications
- Collaborate with scientists and other Language Engineers in developing
coherent and comprehensive meaning representation frameworks
- Lead annotation efforts to test and solidify new representations
· Provide day-to-day coordination of data collection efforts, including
planning, scheduling, and reporting
- Measure and analyze accuracy and throughput of annotated data
- Handle competing requests from a range of data customers
- Write grammars and build FSTs
- Use modeling tools to bootstrap new functionalities

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- 3+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing,
semantics, philosophy of language
- Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup
- Experience with ontologies and other semantic meaning representation schemas
- Experience in Perl, Python, or another scripting language

Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep expertise in building ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic meaning
representation frameworks
- Comfortable working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
- Experience in writing grammars and building FSTs
- Experience with statistical language modeling
- Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
- Familiarity with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, R,
Matlab, etc.)
- 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
- Able to think creatively and possess strong analytical and problem solving
skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Exceptional level of organization

To apply, please see the application link provided below. 

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability /
Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/781598/language-engineer-ii 
Contact Information:
	Kathryn Burr 
	Email: kathburr at amazon.com 


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