Computational Linguist

**About us**
At M47, we are an innovation-driven tech start up with the vision of bringing next generation data-driven and AI solutions to the market. We enable organizations to harness the power of AI, extract value from their data and achieve full optimisation through the automation of business processes. Our deep tech knowledge, strong industry experience and property AI Data platform allows us to work with top-tier companies around the world.

**About you**

In line with M47’s exciting growth, we are on the quest for talented linguists to join our NLP team to work on a cutting-edge Personal Voice Assistant software used by millions of users worldwide, with one of our major clients. You will be responsible for helping the Voice Assistant to understand and speak your native language, focusing on the phonetics and phonology of NLG and NLU, connecting humans and machines through seamless voice interaction.

**About your day-to-day**:

- Evaluate, assess and monitor large amounts of speech data in order to improve software quality and linguistic resources for speech recognition and speech synthesis.
- Phonetically transcribe speech audio, classify speech sounds by their linguistic features, verify existing phonetic transcriptions accurately through solid understanding of conventional phonetic notation, and accurately describe the phonotactics of your native language.
- Create, update, review and correct phonetic transcriptions for speech dictionaries.
- Create and correct data for language modeling.
- Work with speech signals.
- Review tests and identify potential fixes.

**What is in it for you?**

Temporary contract with the possibility to extend

Follow your career ambition with growth opportunities (horizontal and vertical) within the project and on-going trainings
- ️ Office located at the heart of Barcelona

Comprehensive compensation package, including private medical insure coverage and flexible remuneration through Cobee, including meals and transport

Be part of our diverse communities and enjoy our meet-ups (Women in Tech, LGTBQ+, Wellbeing, City Lifestyle...)

Great international, inclusive and dynamic work environment (more than 20 nationalities)

**This is for you if you have**:

- Native language skills in **English (USA)**
- Excellent knowledge of structural aspects of the language (in particular phonology and phonetics).
- Up-to-date exposure to popular native culture and the ability to use that knowledge to improve the focus of your local market.
- Solid understanding of conventional phonetic notation such as IPA, SAMPA or CMU.
- Comfortable with tools such as Bash and Grep.
- Ability to run and debug scripts written in Python as well as reading and writing regular expressions.
- Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and proven ability to manage priorities.
- Good organizational and analytical skills.
- An academic background (BA, MA, MSc or PhD) in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Speech Technologies or professional experience in related field

**Desired experience/skills**
- Experience working with large quantities of natural language data, lexical resources, corpora, Natural Language Processing algorithms.
- Experience with one or more version control systems with a preference for Git.
- Familiarity with speech signal (e.g. spectrograms).
- Experience in ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) and TTS (Text to Speech).
- Experience using OS X or iOS software.
- **M47 Labs not only encourages but is actively working on empowering its diverse and inclusive talent. M47 Labs is committed to ensure a non-discriminative workplace, work life and selection process and such decisions will not be influenced by race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, social and conjugal status, age or other applicable characteristics. M47 Labs prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind and all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business needs.**_