Linguist

Posted 16 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Remote
Entry level
Database
The Role
The Linguist role involves analyzing multilingual data quality, developing language resources, and collaborating with linguistics and engineering teams. Candidates should have strong language fluency and data handling skills.
Summary Generated by Built In

We’re looking for a driven, multilingual professional who thrives in fast-paced environments and is excited to contribute to a collaborative, multicultural team.


As a Data Analyst on our Linguistics team, you’ll leverage your language expertise to support the development and refinement of language data across our products. Your fluency will directly impact how specific languages are represented and maintained within Lightcast’s global platform. In this role, you’ll play a pivotal part in shaping linguistic features, driving quality standards, and enhancing product functionality. This is a unique opportunity to influence the evolution of language data on a global scale, with meaningful contributions to cutting-edge technology.

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.
  • Create crosswalks from origin language titles and skills to Lightcast taxonomies
  • Use SQL for data handling and database management
  • Annotate data used for model training and validation

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Data Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, NLP or similar.
  • Strong linguistics knowledge
  • Competency in any of the following languages:  Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese.
  •  (Preference will be given to candidates that possess multiple)
  • 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
  • Knowledge of RegEx

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) with offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India.  We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities. 


Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

Top Skills

Excel
Python
SQL
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The Company
HQ: Moscow, ID
468 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

Emsi Burning Glass 
is now Lightcast.

Our name is new, but our dedication to providing the world’s best data-driven talent strategies remains the same. We’re going to continue bringing clarity to the labor market, guiding our customers through a complex and changing world and giving them the competitive advantage they demand.

Our mission is to unlock new possibilities in the labor market.

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