Linguistics Data Analyst - Remote - UK
Remote (Work From Home) UK
Lightcast
The world’s most comprehensive labor market data, delivered in simple, easy-to-understand tools. Burningglass and Emsi are now part of Lightcast. Burning Glass Institute is a separate entity and relies on the data from Lightcast.
We’re looking for a driven, multilingual professional who thrives in fast-paced environments and is excited to contribute to a collaborative, multicultural team.
As a Data Analyst on our Linguistics team, you’ll leverage your language expertise to support the development and refinement of language data across our products. Your fluency will directly impact how specific languages are represented and maintained within Lightcast’s global platform. In this role, you’ll play a pivotal part in shaping linguistic features, driving quality standards, and enhancing product functionality. This is a unique opportunity to influence the evolution of language data on a global scale, with meaningful contributions to cutting-edge technology.
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.
As a Data Analyst on our Linguistics team, you’ll leverage your language expertise to support the development and refinement of language data across our products. Your fluency will directly impact how specific languages are represented and maintained within Lightcast’s global platform. In this role, you’ll play a pivotal part in shaping linguistic features, driving quality standards, and enhancing product functionality. This is a unique opportunity to influence the evolution of language data on a global scale, with meaningful contributions to cutting-edge technology.
Major Responsibilities:
- Analyze and enhance the data quality of multilingual text classifiers
- Collaborate with linguistics and engineering teams to develop and optimize language parsers
- Translate and align taxonomies across multiple languages, including Skills, Titles, and Occupations
- Create crosswalks from source language skills and job titles to Lightcast’s standardized taxonomies
- Utilize SQL for efficient data handling, querying, and database management
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Data Analytics, NLP, or a related field (preferred)
- Strong linguistics knowledge, including syntax and structural analysis of languages
- Competency in three or more languages — strong preference given to candidates fluent in Danish, Croatian, and Czech
- Knowledge of multinational labor markets (preferred)
- Experience with data analysis using tools such as Excel or Python
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including vlookups, data cleanup, and functions
- Knowledge of query languages such as SQL
- Familiarity with text analysis or machine learning principles
- Knowledge of RegEx
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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Tags: Data analysis Data Analytics Data quality Engineering Excel Linguistics Machine Learning NLP Python SQL
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