Senior Linguist

<h3>About Unbabel</h3><p>Unbabel eliminates language barriers so that businesses can thrive across cultures and geographies.</p><p>The company’s language operations platform blends advanced artificial intelligence with human editors, for fast, efficient, high-quality translations that get smarter over time. Unbabel integrates seamlessly in any channel so that agents can deliver consistent multilingual support from within their existing workflows. Making it easy for enterprises to grow into new markets and build seamless customer experiences in every corner of the world.</p><p>Based in San Francisco, California, Unbabel works with leading customer support and marketing teams at brands such as Facebook, Microsoft, Booking.com, and Under Armour to communicate effortlessly with customers around the world, no matter what language they speak.</p><h3> <br/><br/>What’s the opportunity about?</h3><p>As a Senior Linguist in the biomedical and health sciences, you will be responsible for assessing, development and implementing language technologies and solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including engineers, data scientists and other linguists to create and maintain language resources that enable natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) applications.</p><p><br/></p><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul> <li>Create translation quality workflows for different biomedical and health domains;</li> <li>Responsible for MT and post editing assessment</li> <li>Responsible for user testing experiments</li> <li>Develop and maintain domain-specific language resources (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, terminologies) to support NLP applications in the biomedical field</li> <li>Create and annotate text corpora for training and evaluating NLP models, and ensure the quality and consistency of the data</li> <li>Collaborate with scientists, clinicians, and other domain experts to design and implement NLP solutions for various biomedical and health applications, such as information extraction, entity recognition, and text classification</li> <li>Evaluate and improve the performance of NLP models using various evaluation metrics</li> <li>Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in NLP, ML, and other related fields, and identify opportunities to apply these technologies to biomedical and health research.</li> </ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><ul> <li>At least 5 years experience in the biomedical and health domain;</li> <li>Experience in translation quality workflows for the biomedical domain;</li> <li>Experience with machine translation and post editing in the biomedical domain;</li> <li>Experience with doctors, patients, pharmaceuticals, health professionals, or similar;</li> <li>Experience in developing and implement linguistics strategies for multilingual content;</li> <li>Experience in user testing;</li> <li>Previous experience in research projects is a plus.</li> </ul><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><ul> <li>Competitive salary at one of Europe’s leading tech startups</li> <li>Stimulating startup environment committed to diversity and inclusion</li> <li>Flexible working hours</li> <li>Individual budget to set up your workstation (mechanical keyboard, mouse, etc.)</li> <li>Health Insurance</li> <li>Stock options</li> <li>Role-related and professional skills training, to support you on your career journey</li> <li>MacBook and external monitor</li> <li>Yearly company retreat</li> <li>Dog friendly office</li> <li>Free daily breakfast in the office</li> </ul> <p><br/></p><h3>What to expect from our Interview process?</h3><ol> <li>Interview with Recruiter (30 min)</li> <li>Technical Interview (30 min or 45 min)</li> <li>Team Interview (30min to 45min)</li> <li>Final Interview (30 mins) </li> </ol> <p>Ideally, we like our process to take no more than three weeks. </p> <p><br/></p><p><strong>Diversity statement </strong></p><p>Unbabel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or mental disability. Not only do we not discriminate, but we celebrate differences. If for whatever reason you need us to make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to our recruitment process, please let your recruiter know.</p> <p></p><p><em>(We are not accepting candidates coming from recruitment agencies at this moment)</em></p><p></p>