Data Engineer I

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.