You will also manage, coach and mentor other linguists on the team.
Job responsibilities
- Manage intent and entity taxonomy and alignment with cross-functional teams across the organization.
- Work closely with Product Managers, ML Engineers and Analytics by providing linguistic expertise and direction for new NLP capabilities (e.g., dialogue, ambiguity, inference)
- Partners closely with Annotation Lead to review and optimize training data and enable meaningful and measurable outcomes.
- Manages conversational analysis in close partnership with Analytics team to identify patterns, anomalies, opportunities for improvement, leveraging conversation analysis methodologies
- Design extended analytic frameworks and semantic representations to support richer NLU models.
- Identify new testing opportunities and conversational strategies
- Develops and maintains documentation on Natural Language Understanding processes, guidelines and best practices
- Manages other linguists and conversation analysts
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of experience in working in Computational Linguistics or Natural Language Processing, specifically within context of chatbot development or related AI applications.
- Background in linguistic analysis, especially syntax, semantics and/or pragmatics
- Advanced knowledge of conversational AI product development life cycle, training, design, and conversation analysis
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Master’s or PhD in computational Linguistics, Data Science or related fields.
- Experience working with Generative AI and LLMs
- Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization