Bilingual Linguist
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Job Description
Work Location:Mountain View CA
Duration:6month contract; hybrid role (onsite 3 days a week)
Pay Range:$40/hr to $49/hr
Responsibilities:The client is looking for a Linguist who will participate in a variety of formal and informal activities as dictated by the needs of the business and may include:
- Support Machine Learning experts in languagespecific areas for their target language (US English). These include creating grammar providing language data annotating for various NLP projects writing documentation and guidelines reviewing data and test results and proposing improvements and new features.
- Perform tasks such as translation localization data annotation phonetic transcription speech synthesis machine translation natural utterance generation grammar checking ASR transcription automation text mining and other NLPrelated tasks.
- Research plan and document product features for various audiences such as software developers IT admins sales engineers and end users.
- Identify and resolve issues relating to documentation project schedules structure design and deliverables.
Required Qualifications:
- Education:Bachelors Degree preferably in Linguistics
- Native US English speaker with strong grammar spelling and syntax knowledge. MUST be a native US English speaker
- Proficiency in Spanish with strong knowledge of grammar spelling and syntax.
- Experience in translation and/or localization for English and Spanish
- Ability to maintain focus on repetitive testing and data review tasks for long time periods.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships and advocate for the craft with internal stakeholders.
- Familiarity with voice assistants (Bixby Siri Google Assistant Alexa Cortana etc.) on a regular basis.
- Expert ability to aggressively seek out distill and learn technical information from internal worldwide development teams explain it to other team members and then document it in the appropriate delivery target (developer guide whitepaper tutorial blog etc.).
- Stay current with trends new tools and technologies in the Android and mobile device ecosystem.
- Familiarity with smart home devices and the Internet of Things.
- Ability to quickly learn new tools and software in a Windows environment.
- Ability to understand and create use cases that developers can use to implement new product features.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and maintain high content quality in a fastpaced constantly changing dynamic environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Background in computational linguistics or natural language processing.
- Bachelors Degree in Computational Linguistics Linguistics
- Experience in a voice assistant software environment or equivalent academic setting.
- Scripting programming database experience (Python Pandas NumPy SQL Regular Expressions).
- Knowledge of US English linguistics (specifically syntax semantics and phonetics) and natural language processing.
- Demonstrated ability to write clear concise consistent and accurate documentation for developers SMEs and IT personnel.
- Experience in US English localization.
- Experience in Voice UX design and dialog management.
- Expertise in data analysis and the ability to use Microsoft Excel functions and macros.
- Experience with content management tools (e.g. SharePoint Confluence Perforce Git).
- Experience with developer tools (e.g. Android Studio Jira).
- Software QA/testing experience.
- 03 Years of experience level I
- 3 years of experience level II
**No C2C resumes are considered**
Thank you!
FocusKPI Hiring Team
Founded in 2010 FocusKPI Inc. (FocusKPI) is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics practice and methodologies. FocusKPI is a US company headquartered in Silicon Valley California with an East Coast office in Boston Massachusetts.
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Employment Type
Contract
