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.

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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:

The main function of a Linguist is to determine Assistant data needs and setting strategic vision for data-based model and product improvements.

Job Title: Linguist II

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, and train, analyze, evaluate machine learning models.
Identify best practices and improve procedures across data systems.
Develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses
Clearly communicate with project stakeholders.
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.
Awareness of German linguistic, cultural, local norms
Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
Intermediate or above skills in Python or SQL

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree or PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)
Advanced skills in Python and SQL
Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools

Location: Burlingame, CA or Redmond, WA [Fully Onsite]

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $62,400 – $104,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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Preferred Skills

SQL

Python
German Language
Linguistics

Job details

Job ID

330874

Job Requirements

Linguist II

Location

Burlingame, California, US

Recruiter

Chirag

Email

chirag.balani@ascendion.com

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.

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