Linguist
Linguist
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06-04-2025
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The primary expectation for this role as a data analyst for the linguistics team is proficiency in multiple languages enabling you to effectively manage develop and optimize linguistic resources. You will be assigned languages based on fluency and your role will be to foster these languages and develop them for a multitude of products delivered to customers. Your job will be to build and maintain these languages per our Lightcast standards and help in the development of further features.To fill this role we are looking for a dynamic and multilingual person that will quickly learn the ins and outs of the role in order to become an active part of a multicultural team.
Major Responsibilities:
- Analyze and improve data quality of multilingual text classifiers
- Work with linguistics and engineering teams to build out new parsers across languages
- Translate various taxonomies such as Skills Titles and Occupations.
- Create crosswalks from origin language titles and skills to Lightcast taxonomies
- Use SQL for data handling and database management
- Annotate data used for model training and validation
Skills/Abilities:
- Competency in any of the following languages: Arabic Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Finnish French German Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Spanish Swedish Turkish Vietnamese.
- (Preference will be given to candidates that possess multiple)
- Understanding of syntax and structural analysis of languages
- Microsoft Excel experience (including vlookups data cleanup and functions)
- Knowledge of query languages such as SQL
- Knowledge of text analysis or machine learning principles
- Experience with data analysis using tools such as Excel or Python
- Knowledge of RegEx
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree in Linguistics Data Analytics Engineering Computer Science Statistics Artificial Intelligence NLP or similar.
- Strong linguistics knowledge
Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) with offices in the United Kingdom Europe and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people our institutions and companies and our communities.
Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been and always will be committed to diversity equity and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic original and best selves to work.
Employment Type
Full-Time
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