Familysearch Technical Historical Records Linguist II - Germanic Languages (5-Year Fixed Term, Us-Based)

We are looking for an experienced detail-oriented individual with demonstrated native-level language expertise in Germanic languages (German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian), deep knowledge of historical genealogical documents, and demonstrated understanding of guidelines and principles for creating data for machine learning systems to help us build high-quality training data for machine learning systems, review the work of others and mentor them to do likewise. This work will assist in making billions of records available in FamilySearch's automation and machine learning platform.

Education:

• BA/BS Linguistics, Family History, or other bachelor's degree with related or equivalent experience required.

Experience:

• 4-5 years relevant or related experience or equivalent experience

Skills & Abilities:

• Native level fluency in at least 1 of the following languages: German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

• Business level fluency in English

• Demonstrated paleography skills to accurately decipher historical documents, including experience with gothic handwriting

• Demonstrated linguistic skills to build NLP datasets

• Demonstrated understanding of guidelines and best practices for creating different types of machine learning datasets from historical genealogical documents

• Demonstrated ability to mentor and train others

• Demonstrated ability to update instructional materials in a manner that is grammatically correct, concise, accurate, and easy to understand

• Experience working with historical documents

• Strong technical and analytical aptitude with a passion for data, efficiency, and accuracy

• Independent worker who is self-motivated, dependable, detail oriented, responsible, self-disciplined, and a team player with a record of timely delivery of requests

• Willingness to support several projects at one time, and to accept reprioritization as necessary in a fast paced, constantly evolving environment

• Comfortable handling a high volume of work on a daily basis

• High proficiency in Microsoft Office tools including: Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

• Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts

• Experience with additional languages a plus

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As a Machine Learning Technical Historical Records Linguist II in the Records Product Group at FamilySearch you will be expected to demonstrate expertise in paleography, linguistics, technology, and historical records to build machine learning datasets for historical genealogical documents in many languages.

You will review the work of peers and provide mentoring and timely feedback to ensure datasets are created accurately, model the truth of the underlying artifact, and follow project guidelines. You will also assist in updating instructional materials and training others.

This individual will be expected to use paleography skills to accurately decipher historical documents, annotate language data with linguistic information to build natural language processing (NLP) datasets, model the way people naturally read historical documents by creating hierarchies of relationships between areas of text, precisely map the layout of historical documents, curate large amounts of data, review datasets for errors and provide corrections in a timely manner, and other data modeling activities and duties as assigned.

Finally, this person will enable FamilySearch's automation efforts by meeting aggressive deadlines and accomplishing work assignments with consistently high output, quality, and accuracy and helping others to do likewise.

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