Garmin is a leading active tech company. The company develops innovative products for people who live an active life – from smartwatches, dive and bike computers to sports airplane cockpits and radars for yachts. Founded in 1989 in Olathe, Kansas, by Gary Burrell and Dr. Min Kao, Garmin is today known for a broad, highly differentiated product portfolio in five different segments: outdoor, fitness, aviation, automotive OEM and marine. More than 22,000 employees in 35 countries across the globe help Garmin customers discover their passions and live more active, conscious and healthy lives in line with the Garmin claim “Beat Yesterday”.
The Garmin Würzburg GmbH is a European development center participating in the worldwide development of basic technology for future products in the fields of Automotive, Fitness & Outdoor, Marine and Corporate Health. In Würzburg currently 200 employees are working in the areas of software development, software quality assurance and product management as well as administration and Corporate Health.
We are successful together and you can become a part of it - true to our motto "Together in Würzburg with our colleagues worldwide".
Become a part of our Team in WÜRZBURG! We are looking for a:
Speech Localization Specialist (m/w/d)
In this role, you play a key part in shaping our speech localization capabilities. You work at the intersection of linguistics and technology, driving improvements in language quality, processes, and tooling, while ensuring that our devices speak and understand all supported languages accurately and naturally.
Being part of the team you will:
· Contribute to both strategic and hands-on localization work
· Partner with the Speech Technology Team to localize content across multiple languages to prepare our products
for international markets
· Support tooling and workflow improvements to adapt to changing technology
· Collaborate closely with the Localization team, Product Managers and other stakeholders to align speech
features with customer needs
· Apply linguistic rules and convert them into machine‑readable formats
· Work with rule‑based language systems and templates
· Research domain-specific terminology and jargon
· Create, review, and maintain linguistic assets
· Drive broader translation and quality improvements
You have:
· A bachelor’s degree in a linguistic discipline
· A strong multilingual background
· Preferably several years of relevant professional experience
· Experience with linguistic concepts, grammars, and language rules
· Ability to work with rule‑based systems, technical formats, and template‑based content
· Experience with localization workflows, language technology, and world‑wide localization systems
· Exposure to Speech technologies or NLP‑related tasks
· Understanding of localization requirements for model training (speech recognition, TTS, LLMs, etc.)
· Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
· Ability to work independently and in cross‑functional teams
What you can look forward to:
- Flexible Working hours
- 30 days' vacation
- Fair pay and special benefits such as VL, bAV, job ticket or cash card and much more.
- Free use of our products in your free time, Family & Friends discount for Garmin products and participation in the Garmin share program
- Health campaigns, company sports groups and a wide range of further training and seminar offers
...And on top of that, you get to experience the Garmin feeling.
Interested? Please apply online.
