Summary:

Lightcast processes millions of data points every day in dozens of languages. This role will be a critical function to building out linguistic capabilities to scale those solutions. Will perform quality control for both human and machine translated functions.

Major Responsibilities:

• Analyze and improve data quality of multilingual text classifiers
• Work with linguistics and engineering teams to build out new parsers across languages
• Translate various taxonomies such as Skills, Titles, and Occupations.
• Research and work with third party translation services to procure languages not native in house
• Monitor the quality of translations from third party vendors

Key Skills and Qualifications:

• Competency in three or more languages
• Understanding of syntax and structural analysis of languages
• Microsoft Excel experience (including vlookups, data cleanup, and functions)
• Knowledge of query languages such as SQL
• Knowledge of text analysis or machine learning principles
• Experience with data analysis using tools such as Excel or Python

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Data Analytics, NLP or similar (preferred)