Language Expert with Dutch

About our Team

Join one of the largest speech and language processing teams in Europe.

We develop and test our next-generation Intelligent Assistant. We define the way users access, explore, and interact with devices, knowledge, information, and services.

In our lab engineers, researchers, and linguists work together on innovative products for the multilingual European market.

We are looking for language experts with programming skills (experience, interest) or engineers with foreign language knowledge and interest in linguistics. If you fit either description, we invite you to join us.

Role and Responsibilities

• Performing tasks consisting in language resources processing (text localization, translation, transcription, annotation, error detection, speech recordings, corpora collection, etc.)
• Participation in processes of verification, analysis and normalization of text and audio language resources
• Post-edition of machine-translated content
• Development of new linguistic resources or other linguistic tasks based on actual project needs
• Analysis of annotated data in terms of issues verification, annotation metrics analysis and reporting
• Language corpora augmentation with domain-specific text and audio data
• On-device testing of language resources
• Reported issues verification
• Providing linguistic expertise and linguistic support for various projects
• Collaboration with NLP experts, engineers and 3rd party companies on language-specific developments
• Proactively self-developing in terms of skills and knowledge based on normalization protocols
• Time availability: depending on project needs (min. 20h/week, max. 40h/week)

Skills and Qualifications

• University degree in Language Studies, Translation, Interpreting or related fields
• Proven knowledge (C1-C2 level) of one of following European languages: Swedish (sv-SE), Dutch (nl-NL), Romanian (ro-RO), Spanish (es-ES), French (fr-FR, fr-CA), Italian (it-IT), German (de-DE)
• Fluency in English (at least level C1)
• Previous experience in linguistics, translation, content creation, proofreading, computational linguistics, etc.
• Deep knowledge of the target-languages speaking countries cultures
• Efficiency, accuracy and interest in creating linguistic data
• Collaborative and helpful approach in terms of close team cooperation
• Ability to support several projects at one time and to accept re-prioritization as necessary
• Ability to quickly understand and be updated on guidelines and policies defined for the product
• An analytical mind with problem-solving abilities
• Very strong communication skills
• Attention to details
• Practical knowledge of Windows environment
• Highly motivated to learn and develop

Nice to have

• Native speakers
• Previous experience in NLP
• Knowledge in field of prompt engineering and LLMs technologies
• General knowledge of NLP, LLMs, MT, computational linguistics and/or programming skills
• Experience in working in crowdsourcing framework and/or long-term stay experience in one of target-language speaking countries (Sweden, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, France, Canada, Italy, Germany)
• Reasonably good command of another European language (B2 level and above)
• Practical knowledge of formal grammars and syntax or Python
• Being updated with the latest technologies and research in the field
• Understanding of NLP techniques for text representation

We offer

• Opportunity to work with the latest technologies in a multicultural environment
• Multidisciplinary team (developers, linguists, creative writers, etc.)
• Friendly working atmosphere
• Flexible working hours
• Full remote work