Senior NLU Engineer

Our client is seeking a motivated senior research application engineer to design, develop and maintain the next generation Japanese natural language understanding (NLU) system for the automotive and mobility markets.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Development of the NLU pipeline
• Development of new use cases and features in NLU
• Define and refine annotation specifications
• Develop and maintain dictionaries, grammar rules and annotations.
• NLU and end-to-end accuracy improvements
• Responding to QA and customer reported issues
• Contribute to team effort to improvement of entire NLU system

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related field (Masters is an advantage)
• At least 3 years of relevant work experience
• Native speaker of Japanese; near-native speaker of English is a plus
• Experience in NLP, especially natural language understanding;
• Programming skills (especially scripting to support research experiments)

Preferred skills

• Machine learning
• Programming experience with Python or Java,
• Proficiency in additional human languages a plus