pureIntegration, a technology consulting firm with 17+ years of experience servicing fortune 100 clients is seeking a Linguistic Engineer (NLP). Are you interested in solving natural language problems that involve speech and text utterances from millions of customers and hundreds of thousands of video content? Do you have experience working with teams building large-scale speech, NLP and machine learning systems? Do you want to conduct industry-leading applied research to create voice assistants to help millions of households interact with video and music content on their TV, PC, Phone, and Mobile devices as well as troubleshoot problems without human intervention? 

As a Linguistic Engineer in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group, you would collaborate with engineers, researchers and editorial teams to help design linguistic annotations, ontologies, taxonomies and/or semantic schemas. Your daily work will involve working closely with product managers to understand business requirements and to help build more effective NLP systems. We use advanced machine learning to build conversational NLP skills that understand the user's intent, whether they want to see the latest movies, close the garage door or access their bill. You would be an integral part of our rapidly growing Applied AI research and engineering team.

Location: Remote. 

Work Arrangement:  Contract W2 hourly role, initial contract period through 12/31/2022 with possible extension for additional year. 

Work Authorization: USCIT, Green Card. We Do Not Sponsor H1B Visas, or C2C

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with NLP engineers and researchers to develop coherent, comprehensive and scalable meaning representation frameworks in different languages, considering quality, fairness and machine bias.
• Train and/or evaluate NLP or dialogue systems, identify errors/regressions and propose solutions.
• Guide annotation efforts to train and test new capabilities.
• Measure and analyze accuracy, reliability and throughput of annotated data.
• Handle competing requests from a range of data customers.
• Tackle complex problems that arise in production and find customer-centric solutions.

Skills:

• Bachelors degree in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics with knowledge of syntax and semantics.
• 8+ years of experience in designing linguistic semantic annotation schemes and creating and/or managing the creation of annotated corpora for training and evaluating machine learning models.
• 8+ years experience using the command line and scripting to process and analyze language data (with your programming language of choice).
• Knowledge of experimental design, evaluation methodologies, qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Effective communicator, both verbal and written.

Nice to have:

• Masters or PhD degree in Linguistics/Computational Linguistics.
• Knowledge of multiple areas of Linguistics beyond syntax and semantics, including discourse, morphology, phonetics, phonology.
• Experience with knowledge graphs, text processing, dependency parsing, slot annotation schemas.
• Familiarity with AWS and Content Management Systems (CMS).
• Knowledge of Machine Learning, machine fairness, and error analysis.
• Any level of fluency in Spanish, French, German, or Italian.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Are you self-motivated, collaborative, and client-focused? Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding career? Then pureIntegration would love to hear from you! Your career journey starts here! 

pureIntegration, a systems integration company headquartered in the Washington DC area, serves clients in the fastest growing industries – communications, media, and entertainment. Our industry-focused offerings and collaborative client approach has resulted in a 97% client satisfaction rating.

As a leading service organization, we recognize our most valuable assets are our people, both as individuals and how they come together as a whole. As such, we encourage our team members to become fearless in exploring ideas and opportunities to act on them.

In over 17 years of Digital Transformation consulting and professional services, pureIntegration has successfully designed, integrated, and deployed winning solutions at scale which have resulted in measurable performance increases. Most importantly, we have done it while maintaining 97% client satisfaction for the past 17 years.  With a rich heritage in Communications, Media and Entertainment, our diverse and expanding portfolio includes Fortune 500 enterprises spanning Utilities, Manufacturing, Insurance, CPG, Healthcare, Logistics and other select verticals.

pureIntegration is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.