ML DATA LINGUIST I - Italian, AGI Data Services Bucharest

ML DATA LINGUIST I - Italian, AGI Data Services
Bucureşti
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

The Alexa Data Services (ADS) organization supports voice synthesis and recognition capabilities for Alexa, the
- based service that powers Amazon’s Echo devices. The Alexa service is always getting smarter, adding more functionality, every hour, every day. Our team merges innovation and core technologies to build
- new linguistic features and quality assurance capabilities, continuously improving Amazon's products.

Come build the future of
- technology interaction with us.

Job mission

As a Data Linguist, you’re comfortable with, and understand, the changes to the conventions deployed in response to internal customers’ requests. You demonstrate the ability to adjust your workflows accordingly, and you prioritize strict compliance with regulatory requirements.

Your organizational skills help you prioritize your projects in an
- changing environment. Your ability to concentrate and your high attention to detail help you deliver
- quality work.

Driven by your passion for data, you show proactive behavior in solving issues with efficiency and accuracy. Your organizational skills help you prioritize your projects in an
- changing environment. Your ability to concentrate and your high attention to detail help you deliver
- quality work.

Key job responsibilities

- Build a thorough understanding of labeling conventions and provide support to global sites.

- Deliver high quality data output within deadlines.

- Handle unique data analysis requests from a wide range of internal customers.

- Contribute to process improvements to reduce handling time and improve data output.

- Dive deep into issues and implement solutions independently.

- Provide quality expertise to other team members and coaching improvements.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bucharest, ROU

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- BA or BS degree in Linguistics/Italian /Computational Linguistics, or equivalent practical experience in data
- up.

- Extensive experience with phonemic transcription in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and/or X-SAMPA.

- Native level fluency in Italian.

- Advanced level fluency of English

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with command line tools.

- Competency in one or more
- English world languages (e. g. French, German, Spanish).

- Experience working with interaction data, including experience with annotation and other forms of data markup.

- Practical knowledge of data processing needs and
- offs.

- Comfortable working with speech from various dialects and accents.

- Willing to work with audio content (wearing headsets) for a portion of the day.

- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly

- Capable of working in strict compliance with internal guidelines.

- Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts and learn
- house
- interface tools.

- Strong research skills.

- Willingness to support several projects at one time, and to accept reprioritization as necessary.