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Translators / Linguists
Brief job description:
You will be in control of the quality of all training and test data collected for our statistical machine translation system. You will work both on baseline and on customer data. You will outsource to external suppliers whose work you will manage (control & check). You know at least 3 languages (your mother tongue language, English and at least one language listed below).
We are also looking to build a team of outside collaborators for the listed language pairs.
Absolute Requirements:
- True passion for foreign languages
- interest in how languages work, how they differ, their idioms…
- having used some free online machine translation tools;
Language 1: English (US):
- Absolutely Required Level: Perfect Reading, Perfect Writing, Good Speaking;
Language 2: at least one of these: Spanish, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), German, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Portugal or Brasil), Russian, French, Farsi, Dari, Urdu:
- Absolutely Required Level: Perfect Reading, Good Writing, Good Speaking;
You have to know both English and one of these languages mentioned above.
Knowing (and having used before) some helpful language tools for Languages 1 and 2;
- Linguistic knowledge: semantics, syntax, lexicon, morphology, terminology, part of speech
- Be able to explain things about a particular language to others that don’t know that language using the appropriate linguistic idioms;
Ideally
- Native speaker of one language of the Language 2 list;
- Knowing 2 languages of the Language 2 list;
- Experience with professional formal language (as found in manuals, controlled language, …)
- Some kind of translation experience:
- Preferably from and to English;
- Using a Translation Memory tool (Trados, Transit, Wordfast, OmegaT…)
- Using a webbased groupware tools (a workflow system, a global management system, a content management system, an ERP system, a reporting system…)
- Some relevant technical experience (with MS Word/Open Office, HTML/XML/XSLT, Character Encoding, regular expressions…)
- Basic understanding of domains, tagging, ontology,…
- Having worked in a project setup before (as a translator, an project coordinator, a reviewer, a post-editor, an author…)
What has Language Weaver to offer?
- Full package of benefits & trainings
- Top clients to work with (Fortune-100 Companies)
- Cross fertilization between Engineering, Science and Marketing fields
- The possibility to learn new things in a company that is a real innovator
- Daily variety, daily challenges
- The work culture of an American software company: freedom and responsibility
Please send a motivational letter in English. In this letter answer the following questions:
- Where did you pick up the love for languages?
- Which Machine Translation tools did you use? What do you think about them?
- Do you have extra skills that make the difference between you and other good candidates?
Please submit your CV in English to mgeorgescu@languageweaver.com
We are an American software company based in Marina Del Rey, California, and a pioneer in automated language translation.
At Language Weaver, the best of scientific, entrepreneurial and creative minds come together to develop the best human communication solutions.
We strive to maintain an environment that allows everyone to enjoy their work and be recognized for it.