Job description
We are seeking a skilled Thai Linguist to join our Linguistics team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for managing, developing, and optimizing linguistic resources to support a wide range of customer-facing products. Your expertise in Thai will help shape how this language is represented across our platforms, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and cultural relevance.
You will work to build and maintain high-quality Thai language assets aligned with Lightcast standards, and contribute to the development of new features that enhance user experiences.
\*\*\* This is a Contract role for 6 to 9 months in length ***
Major Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain Thai linguistic resources (e.g., lexicons, grammar rules, taxonomies)
- Improve data quality for multilingual text classifiers
- Translate and localize taxonomies such as Skills, Titles, and Occupations
- Annotate data for model training and validation
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support language integration and feature development
- Ensure all Thai language assets meet Lightcast quality standards
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Data Analytics, Computer Science, NLP, or a related field
- Fluency in Thai - Additional language skills are a plus
- Ability to analyze language data for machine learning use
- Collaborative, detail-oriented, and comfortable in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
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.
