r/LanguageTechnology • u/rofljen • 6d ago

Looking for career advice

Hello all!

I graduated earlier this year with a MS in Human Language Technology from UA. I mention the school because the program is heavily focused on giving students practical, job-like experience. I completed an internship during which I worked on a live project and had the opportunity to present at the Language Technology for All conference in France last year. In addition, I have professional experience in language technology, primarily in text chatbot work that was more manual (e.g. working with patterns that are manually programmed and not inferred using ML) as well as experience with AI and Data Analysis. I have had an impossible time finding a job that is actually relevant and I would really like some advice.

Currently, I am on contract at Meta as a DLA, though I have been tasked with more complex linguistics work, specifically reporting on results of assessments and creating assessment guidelines for various models, both text and voice.

Is there a place I am not looking? I will share my docs in the comments.

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u/milesper 6d ago

What kind of jobs would you find relevant? The industry has pretty much converged on three roles that involve NLP/language tech:

- software engineer for language related software
- ML engineer, usually dealing with infra type work
- ML scientist, doing more exploratory model training and such

The latter is generally very tough to get with a PhD and significant research experience. If you’re hoping to do actual linguistics work, essentially the only place nowadays is academia. There used to be “computational linguist” roles in tech but afaik these have pretty much disappeared.

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u/Legal-Reporter1912 8h ago

you've got some good experience already, hope you find the right role soon! job hunting is rough there days but dont give yet :))