The Role
Lightcast is seeking data-driven individuals with specific language expertise to help expand our global product features. This person will play a key role in ensuring we deliver high-quality data to our clients.
Note: This is a full-time (40 hours/week) independent contractor position for up to 9 months. It is a BYOD (bring your own device) role requiring access to a personal laptop.
Major Responsibilities
- Analyze and improve data quality of multilingual text classifiers.
- Work with linguistics and engineering teams to build out new parsers across languages.
- Translate various taxonomies such as Skills, Titles, and Occupations.
- Competency in reading and writing Hebrew
- Understanding of syntax and structural analysis of languages
- Microsoft Excel experience (including vlookups, data cleanup, and functions)
- Knowledge of query languages such as SQL
- Advanced knowledge of rule writing using RegEx
- Knowledge of text analysis or machine learning principles
- Experience with data analysis using tools such as Excel or Python
- High tolerance for repetitive and monotonous work.
- Ability to follow complex instructions, navigate ambiguity and work independently.
- Superb sense of urgency and time management.
- Reliable laptop and internet access
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Data Analytics, NLP or similar (preferred)
- Fluency in both English and Hebrew (spoken and written) is required.
Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) with offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.
Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.
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The Company
What We Do
Emsi Burning Glass is a labor market analytics firm, using data to drive economic prosperity.
We collect and integrate complex labor market data and build user-friendly tools to help you understand employment, economic trends, and training needs for your region.
We believe that a skilled, well-prepared workforce drives economic prosperity.
We work with clients in higher education, workforce development, economic development, site selection, and talent acquisition.
