Come and join the the team in Barcelona that teaches Siri how to understand and speak new languages. We are an extremely diverse and passionate group, dedicated to making Siri the best worldwide digital assistant. We are looking for a highly motivated annotation projects lead, with a high sensibility for foreign languages and cultures, to help us drive the quality of our Siri deliverables

Key Qualifications

Native speaker fluency and cultural awareness of Danish

Knowledge of text processing, scripting (e.g python)and automation

Highly organized with attention to detail and a commitment to quality.

Awareness of ML, NLP, TTS, or speech recognition technologies

Outstanding communication skills.

Project management skills, with cross-functional experience and ability to understand and prioritize tasks and issues.

Technical engineering, data science or machine learning background.

Description

The Global Siri team brings innovative solutions to complex engineering challenges, with focus on improving the end to end engineering and quality of Siri's experiences for our international users. From Speech Recognition to Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Big Data consumption, all the way to Speech Synthesis. Be ready to develop robust scalable systems for Siri's international languages, in partnership with a wide range of colleagues.

As a Data Curation Lead in Global Siri, you will drive and supervise several of the data curation efforts that fuel the pieces in Siri’s technology pipeline. This will include defining data curation specifications for your language, reviewing and ensuring data quality, reporting accuracy metrics, and documenting conventions and processes. You will also lead failure analysis exercises aimed at improving the quality of the end-to-end experience for Siri users in your market. This will include delivering hands-on data analysis tasks across the product’s stack, and triaging technical issues

We are looking for demonstrated ability to be creative, take ownership of a project, and a knack for solving problems that stump most accuracy improvement projects. If you have a desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners we'd love to hear from you!

Education & Experience

B.A. or B.S. degree preferred, or experience in related fields

Additional Requirement

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