Computational Linguist

About Ascendion

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

Key Responsibilities:

Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.

Create guidelines for crowdsourcing data collection, annotation, and evaluation

Build datasets, run and modify data pipelines, train, analyze, evaluate machine learning models.

Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams, conversation designers, researchers, engineers, and product managers to improve a digital assistant.

Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, translation, localization and annotation efforts

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

Native or advanced language skills in German is a must.

• Data crowd sourcing (1-2years)
• Experience writing Guidelines in Data collection, Annotation, Model evaluation (1-2 years of experience)
• Native German and highly proficient in English

Desired Qualifications:

• Data analytics – SQL knowledge
• Other language skills like Italian, India languages, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese

Location: Onsite, Burlingame, CA and Redmond, WA

Salary Range: $95,000

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