Language Engineer Intern

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Come join us, we build TTS voices that help developers revolutionize the way people interact with devices and services!

At Amazon, we take pride in building complete end-to-end solutions, starting from researching a problem, implementing the solution, building a scalable and reliable service and ensuring the service is there when you need it.

This position is based at the Amazon office in Cambridge, UK or Gdansk, Poland.

As a TTS Language Engineer Intern you will work alongside TTS Language Engineers and Software Developers who are subject matter experts in speech synthesis and related fields. You are expected to have solid knowledge of linguistics, in particular knowledge of phonetics/phonology. You will be working on a variety of tasks to improve natural language processing of TTS (text-to-speech). You will actively collaborate with Software Developers with linguistic expertise throughout the whole language and voice building process at Amazon.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Native-level (or near native) proficiency in Portuguese (European or Brazilian), Spanish or Italian
- Ability to create / fix phonetic transcriptions in Portuguese, Spanish or Italian
Familiarity with software version control tools (e.g. Git)
- Solid communication skills
- Strong personal interest in learning, researching, and creating new technologies related to foreign languages, linguistics, phonetics, phonology and language technology
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Enrolled in a Degree in Linguistics, with specialization in Phonology, Computational linguistics or similar
- Solid knowledge of phonetics/phonology
- Knowledge of regular expressions
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux command line tools
- Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python)