Language Engineer/Software Engineer - Australian English

Appen, a language and technology company is looking for an Australian English native speaker with experience in natural language processing and/or machine learning.

Project Information

TTS system development role for Australian English for a major technology developer client.

• Start Date: Immediate
• Location: Sydney
• Duration: Approximately 6 weeks initially (subject to extension) and possible training in the US for 3 – 4 weeks
• Hours: Full-time
• Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Specific responsibilities will include

• Developing natural language processing code specific to your language
• Provide input and suggestions towards innovating new approaches and new product features tailored to your home market
• Coming up with clever solutions to complex issues

Education

B.S/MSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields

Preferred Experience/Skills

• Native speaker fluency in one or more commercially important natural languages
• Proven track record in delivering product-quality code.
• Familiar with Java, perl and shell scripting
• iOS or Mac OS X development skills.

How to apply

This link will take you to Appen's recruitment database and please register your details and upload a cover letter and resume:
https://talent-appen.icims.com/jobs/2085/language-engineer-software-engineer./job?mode=view

Key Qualifications

• Strong preference for some focus or experience in classification, information retrieval, natural language

processing, machine learning or related sub-fields

• Australian English native speaker fluency.
• Work with minimal supervision, proactive and self-motivated for timely delivery of quality code.
• Demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities and troubleshooting skills.
• Engineering experience and interest in diverse technical areas.
• Clear and compelling communication skills.
• User driven focus.

We will also consider the candidates with following skills for a different task level of the same project

• Native Australian English dialect
• Strong Computational skills, including basic programming (Python), sed, bash, command line, git
• Linguistic or computational linguistic studies to Honours level or higher, including Phonetics and Phonology