Language Engineer, Alexa Automotive

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Do you like Alexa? Do you have a passion for cars? Do you love bleeding edge technology? Are you a linguist with technical aptitude? Or are you an engineer with a passion for (human) languages and linguistics? Alexa Automotive - Personal mobility team is looking for a Language Engineer with experience in linguistic annotation, ontologies, taxonomies and/or semantic schemas to bring Alexa - the voice controlled personal assistant behind Amazon Echo – in automobiles. The team seeks to provide seamless experiences for customers in local search, navigation/traffic, and public transit with Alexa in the car.

Specifically, the Language Engineer will:
· Design the natural language processing components of new Alexa experiences and features by writing grammars and annotation specifications
· Collaborate with scientists and other Language Engineers in developing coherent and comprehensive meaning representation frameworks
· Lead annotation efforts to test and solidify new representations
· Provide day-to-day coordination of data collection efforts, including planning, scheduling, and reporting
· Measure and analyze accuracy and throughput of annotated data
· Handle competing requests from a range of data customers
· Write grammars and build FSTs
· Use modeling tools to bootstrap new functionalities

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's or higher degree in a relevant field (linguistics or language)
· 2+ years experience in computational linguistics, language data processing, semantics, or syntax
· Experience with language annotation and other forms of data markup
· Experience working with speech and text language data in multiple languages