Data Engineer, Linguistic AI Services

Job Purpose

 We are seeking a Data Engineer to join the Linguistic AI Services (LAIS) team. This role is critical in supporting the development and deployment of AI-driven linguistic solutions by preparing, transforming, and managing clients’ datasets for prompt engineering and model evaluation.

The Data Engineer will work closely with Prompt Engineers, linguists, and R&D teams to ensure that input data is structured, scalable, and optimized for AI workflows.

If you are passionate about data engineering, scripting, and enabling cutting-edge language technologies, this is a unique opportunity to contribute to the future of AI-powered linguistic services.

About Transform

At RWS, we enable the world’s largest enterprises to communicate with global audiences through cutting-edge language technology, AI-driven solutions, and expert services. Our RWS Transform division empowers organizations to accelerate digital transformation, scale global content, and unlock growth in every market.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement data pipelines to support prompt engineering and linguistic AI tasks.
• Prepare, clean, and transform structured and unstructured linguistic data for use in Large Language Models.
• Collaborate with Prompt Engineers to understand data requirements and optimize input formats for prompt performance.
• Develop scripts and automation tools (primarily in Python) to streamline data preparation and transformation processes.
• Maintain and manage datasets across multiple languages and domains, ensuring consistency, quality, and traceability.
• Work with the LAIS R&D team to integrate data workflows with AI model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Monitor data quality and implement validation checks to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Support experimentation by providing tailored datasets and logging mechanisms for prompt evaluation.
• Contribute to the development of internal data standards, documentation, and best practices.
• Stay informed about advancements in data engineering, NLP data formats, and linguistic data processing techniques.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• Experience in data engineering, preferably in NLP or AI-related projects.
• Strong proficiency in Python and scripting for data manipulation and automation.
• Familiarity with NLP concepts and linguistic data formats (e.g., TMX, XLIFF, JSON, CSV).
• Solid understanding of SQL and experience working with relational databases, including querying, joining, and managing tables.
• Understanding of prompt engineering workflows and how data impacts model performance.
• Understanding linguistic concepts and terminology, with the ability to collaborate effectively with linguists and language specialists.
• Experience with cloud-based data storage and processing platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative development practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Experience with project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Azure DevOps) and collaboration platforms (e.g., SharePoint) is a plus.
• Familiarity with the localization industry and multilingual data processing is a plus.

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. 

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics. 

RWS Values 

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

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