Amazon is looking for a bilingual Translation Specialist who can work both into English and German. A Translation Specialist at Amazon's Translation Services has linguistic and translation skills, organization and attention to detail, and excellent communication to manage relationships with colleagues, external partners and other stakeholders. The Translation Specialist manages quality by assessing and scoring translations (both machine-generated and human), working with language assets like style guides, translation memories and term bases, and providing comprehensive and structured feedback supported by sound knowledge of Multidimensional Quality Metrics' framework. This feedback is used to improve human linguists' quality, train and enhance machine-translation (MT) engines as well as quality prediction models. The candidate should be comfortable working in an international and fast-paced environment, where change and ambiguity are present as we constantly grow, improve and innovate. Key job responsibilities Conduct quality checks by proofreading/reviewing linguistic work from freelance translators and reviewers, peers and other external vendors to ensure adherence to customer's and company's quality standards. Provide linguistic feedback to peers, freelance translators and other external vendors and engage in quality improvement initiatives when needed. Review and improve translation engines' (both MT and Large Language Models (LLM)) quality by assessing output and providing feedback. Monitor external vendor quality, investigate quality variations and develop and implement measures to drive quality improvement in collaboration with internal teams. Contribute to the maintenance of language assets, namely style guides, term bases and translation memories. Provide occasional manual translations. Occasionally, post-edit machine-translated product pages to increase the product availability for the customer in their preferred language. Depending on the group's needs and your own skills and inclinations, support our leadership, business and tech teams by taking an active part in training, project/program management, etc. Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
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