27.1341, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Language Engineer, Amazon

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Subject: 27.1341, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Language Engineer, Amazon

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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:21:48
From: Shannon Redlin [sredlin at amazon.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; General 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; General 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 annotation 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 degree in a relevant field
- 2+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing,
statistics, or data analysis
- Experience programming in Perl, Python, Java and/or C/C++
- Comfortable working with speech and text language data in multiple languages
- Experience 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
- Must be able to think creatively and possess strong analytical and problem
solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree in Computational Linguistics
- Experience in writing grammars and building FSTs
- Experience in statistical language modeling
- Experience with annotation and other forms of data markup
- Practical knowledge of version control and agile development
- Strong attention to detail
- Exceptional level of organization
- Fluency in a foreign language a plus



Application Deadline: 31-May-2016 (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/387486 
Contact Information:
	Shannon Redlin 
	Email: sredlin at amazon.com 


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