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Language Engineer - Portuguese Amazon
Cambridge, MA

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Job Description

Amazon is looking for a Portuguese Language Engineer to join our Natural Language Processing (NLP) team. We are seeking a candidate with strong analytical skills and language technology experience to help us develop language components for a variety of Kindle products.

As a Language Engineer at Amazon, you will:

* Create sample language data for the target language (Portuguese)
* Develop NLP components: write rules, build grammars/FSTs, create annotation systems or mappings for the target language
* Contribute to the design of new features by extending existing annotation schemas to cover new areas in the target language
* Use modeling tools to bootstrap and test new functionalities
* Analyze system performance and identify areas for improvement
* Collaborate with other Language Engineers and Data Associate teams in data collection and development efforts