Linguist

Crystal City, VA, USA
AppTek
ago
fulltime Linguistics

AppTek is a leader in Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation, provided via the cloud or on-premise to a variety of markets, such as media and entertainment, call centers, government, enterprise business and others across the globe. Featuring scientists and research engineers who are recognized amongst the best and most experienced in the world, we use deep neural networks, artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop the highest quality real-time streaming and batch language technology solutions in the industry, across a wide array of languages, dialects, and channels.

We currently have a Linguistics position open in Crystal City, VA. 

‍Primary Responsibilities:

  • Data analysis, development, maintenance and documentation:
  • Analyze data from languages worldwide
  • Analyze variation in personal names
  • Develop new data and data subsets
  • Ensure data quality
  • Identify data discrepancies
  • Document nature of data, data development procedures
  • Analyze writing systems and their romanizations and transliterations
  • Support Algorithm development, analysis, maintenance and training for:
  • Automatic language/culture/region identification
  • Name-checking
  • Quality assurance testing

‍Qualifications:

  • MS/PhD in Linguistics
  • Preferred: advanced knowledge of a language using a common non-Roman script such as Arabic/Persian, Chinese, Korean,Cyrillic, etc.

Must be U.S. citizen capable of obtaining a Secret clearance.