Human Language Technology Specialist

Active TS/SCI CI Poly clearance
Achieve a minimum score of 2 in respective foreign language (reading and listening) and a minimum score of 3 in English (reading, listening, speaking, and writing) on the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale
Three (3) years of experience working with human language technology and computer programming
BA degree and 4 – 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 – 6 years of prior relevant experience.

Assist in the management, development, and configuration of HLT tools, including machine translation engines, text classification models, transliteration, and optical character recognition
Identify and address issues with the integration of technology
Facilitate the use of Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools such as SDL Trados, including creating translation memory projects, and managing translation memory and termbase files
Leverage customer tools to generate reports and metrics
Review results generated by tools to assess accuracy and effectiveness
Work with various team members (e.g., systems engineers, triage specialists, and linguists) to identify products of potential value
Provide training to other team members on the use of translation memory and CAT tools
Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the use of HLT

Formal education in data science, computational linguistics, and/or computer programming
Experience with translation memory and translations management, certification preferred.
Familiarity with linguistics and foreign language concepts, including morphology, orthography, and semantics, and computational approaches to modelling them
Advanced degree in computer programming, computational linguistics and/or linguistics
Familiarity with Document and Media Exploitation (DOMEX) processes and specialized tools
Trados certification for Project Management or Translation
Training or certification in Translation Memory and Terminology Management