Analytical Linguist, Search

Company: Google
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

Minimum qualifications: + Master's degree in Natural Language Processing or Analytical Linguistics or equivalent practical experience + 2 years of experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research or related fields + 2 years of experience designing experiments and conducting A/B testing + Human Computation experience Preferred qualifications: + PhD in Natural Language Processing or Linguistics + Experience successfully developing projects and influencing cross-functional partners to deliver results + Expertise in linguistic data collection methodologies and development of natural language understanding systems/conversational agents + Familiarity with experimental design, research methodologies, qualitative and quantitative analysis + Excellent project management skills (from initiation, to planning, monitoring and controlling, execution and closing) and an analytical mindset Analytical Linguists work across Google to drive improvements in quality, classification, information structure, and natural language understanding and generation. As an Analytical Linguist you will work both on complex projects spanning multiple products, groups, and disciplines, and on tightly focused efforts to produce specific product components or answer specific research questions. Analytical Linguists work in many different areas and arrive with a wide variety of skillsyour specialization might involve natural language processing and understanding, phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics, ontology, program management, human subject research, experimental design, statistics, corpus linguistics, large scale data acquisition, or any combination. This team is part of some of the most groundbreaking and exciting work at Google. It's our goal to use insights from linguistics and related fields to constantly improve our products. + Design and deliver large-scale linguistic data acquisition pipelines + Monitor data acquisition and curation; design quality control methodology, experiments, implementation and improvements + Work closely with researchers and engineers by providing linguistic expertise and direction for NLP-enabled systems + Propose and run research experiments around linguistic phenomena Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are 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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy (/eeo/) and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form (l/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) .

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