Research Application Scientist - Japanese NLU

As a Research Application Scientist you will support us in the R&D in natural language understanding (NLU) for Japanese. You will assist in all aspects of planning, developing and maintaining high-quality NLU systems for customers. The job includes new feature development, accuracy improvement, project maintenance, and language-targeted research for improvements.

The position can be filled in the following office locations: Aachen (Germany) or in Burlington, MA (US)

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to development of the NLU pipeline, especially for Japanese and/or Korean
• Development of new features in NLU
• NLU accuracy improvements
• Responding to QA and customer reported issues
• Accuracy checking of annotations
• Contribute to team effort to improvement of entire NLU system

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of NLP and/or Machine Learning
• Programming skills (especially scripting to support research experiments)
• Native or high proficiency in Japanese 

Preferred Skills:

• Natural Language Understanding
• Machine learning;
• Python, Java

Education: Master’s in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related field (or similar work experience)