Linguistics Data Analyst

Summary

Join Lightcast as a Data Analyst on the Linguistics team and leverage your language expertise to support the development and refinement of language data across their products. You will be responsible for analyzing and enhancing the quality of multilingual text classifiers, collaborating with linguistics and engineering teams to develop and optimize language parsers, translating and aligning taxonomies across multiple languages, creating crosswalks from source language skills and job titles to Lightcast's standardized taxonomies, and utilizing SQL for efficient data handling, querying, and database management. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the evolution of language data on a global scale and contribute to cutting-edge technology.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Data Analytics, NLP, or a related field (preferred)
• Strong linguistics knowledge, including syntax and structural analysis of languages
• Competency in three or more languages — strong preference given to candidates fluent in Danish, Croatian, and Czech
• Experience with data analysis using tools such as Excel or Python
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including vlookups, data cleanup, and functions
• Knowledge of query languages such as SQL
• Familiarity with text analysis or machine learning principles
• Knowledge of RegEx

Responsibilities

• Analyze and enhance the data quality of multilingual text classifiers
• Collaborate with linguistics and engineering teams to develop and optimize language parsers
• Translate and align taxonomies across multiple languages, including Skills, Titles, and Occupations
• Create crosswalks from source language skills and job titles to Lightcast’s standardized taxonomies
• Utilize SQL for efficient data handling, querying, and database management

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of multinational labor markets (preferred)