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Overview:
TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers, sellers, and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by thirdparty sellers.
Job Title: Data Engineer I
Duration: 9 months
Location: Remote
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Remote
Job Description:
The AI Data Team in Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Language Engineer to help us deliver results on a new project.
This position is an opportunity to apply your expertise and contribute to advances in Machine Learning (ML). The position is fully remote, with an initial contract duration of nine months.
As a Language Engineer, you will implement data collection and annotation strategy, with a focus on iterative analysis, quality, and efficiency.
You will use your hands-on data analytics skills and knowledge of machine learning (ML) techniques to ensure that datasets are optimized for model performance.
Story Behind the Need Business Group & Key Projects
Team Culture:
The mission of the AI Data Team is to engineer the datasets critical to the success of AWS's machine learning services. From chatbots to subtitles to search results and beyond, these products support dozens of languages and impact millions of people every day.
We are a group of language engineers, linguists, data scientists, data engineers, and program managers, and we partner closely with the science, engineering, and product teams.
We are customer obsessed and committed to delivering results with the highest quality and integrity.
Typical Day in the Role
Interaction with team:
Typical Tasks:
Manage large amounts of linguistic data
Apply best practices for data collection and data annotation
Develop scripts and tools to automate data processing and handling
Analyze quality control metrics for data collection and data annotation
Collaborate with other Language Engineers and stakeholders
Use existing language processing tools to bootstrap and process data
Annotate data according to guidelines
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition
Selling Points:
Allows you to build your career at client and truly show your skills.Bolsters your resume building and how it will look in the future in this industryGives you an opportunity to become a FTE granted they are sucessful
Candidate Requirements
Required Skills:
Master's degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or other language or data-related disciplines or two years' experience in linguistics or NLP
Ability to think about and analyze language abstractly
Proficiency in scripting, querying and/or analytics tools, such as SQL, Python, R, or similar
Experience with language data analysis and data annotation
Experience in developing and evaluating data annotation metrics and guidelines
Preferred Skills:
Ability to explain complex concepts and solutions in easy-to-understand terms
Practical knowledge of version control systems such as GitHub
Experience working with multiple languages and low-resource languages
Advanced proficiency in languages other than English
Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative and dynamic work environment
Native or advanced proficiency in French, German or Spanish
Leadership Principles:
Delivers Results
Earns Trust
Invent and Simplify
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.
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