Snips is an Artificial Intelligence startup based in Paris. We are building a technology in order to add voice interfaces to connected devices, and we are doing this by protecting users' privacy. To protect personal data, all of our algorithms are embedded into the connected devices themselves. This also makes Snips one of the rare GDPR compliant technologies when applied to voice assistants. You can find out more on https://snips.ai/. Aspects of our solutions are Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). In the past year, we have designed state-of-the-art solutions to these matters in French, English, Mandarin, Korean, and German. We are now looking for an awesome linguist for Japanese to help us extend our solution to Japanese. We are offering a 3-month position in our NLU team. It will involve: - training us and teaching us some basics about the Japanese language; - helping us develop our different algorithms in Japanese; - helping us define our Japanese crowdsourcing strategy; - testing our technology. Job requirements: - Bachelor's degree in linguistics or natural language processing; - Native or fluent in Japanese; - Fluent in English and/or French; - Knowledge in formal grammars and/or regular expressions is a plus; - Knowledge in command line is a plus (unix-style terminal); - Interest in the Internet of Things and/or personal assistants is a plus! Job details: - Location: Paris; - Contract: can be either an internship, a commercial or freelance contract; - Duration: 3 months (~35 hours per week); - Start date: between January 5th and January 22th; - Gross salary: calculated from a yearly basis from ¤17000 to ¤40000 depending on the type of contract, the experience and the level of education; - Plus: learning fun stuff such as regular expressions, command line, context-free grammars, etc. and being an actual actor of our solution! - Last but not least: free food and drinks! If you are interested and/or you want more details about the position feel free to email me at anais.chanclu@snips.ai. I will be delighted to discuss further details with you or to welcome you in our office for a little chat. To apply, please proceed to our website: https://snips.welcomekit.co/jobs/linguist-for-japanese_paris