Project Manager - Intellectual Property, Personal Data Protection for AI and Language Technologies (m/f)

Under the CEO’s supervision, the Project Manager will handle legal issues related to the compilation, use and distribution of language datasets in a European and international environment. This yields excellent opportunities for creative, and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively in the Language Engineering field.

Their main tasks will consist of:

• Analysing the legal status of language datasets and language models;
• Implementing data protection requirements in the processing and distribution of language data;
• Analysing data collection legal issues;
• Drafting and negotiating distribution contracts for language datasets to be added to an online catalogue;
• Implementing evaluation procedures for IPR clearance of digital data;
• Assessing ethical practices within our activities.

 The position is based in Paris 13.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience (between 40-60K€).

Other benefits: complementary health insurance and meal vouchers.

Required profile

• PhD (or Master’s degree + at least 3 years’ experience) in IT Law, with good understanding of intellectual property and data protection;
• Fluent English, with advanced writing and analytical skills;
• Experience implementing data protection regulations;
• Knowledge of the European digital regulatory environment (eg. Digital Services Act, Digital Market Act, Data Act, Digital Governance Act, Open Data Directive, AI Act);
• Familiar with public licensing schemes (CC, GPL, etc.); 
• Involvement in European or international projects related to IPR and other legal aspects;
• Dynamic, communicative, flexible and capable of working independently as well as in a team;
• EU citizen, or residence permit enabling to work in France.

Project Manager in Speech Technologies (m/f)

Under the supervision of the CEO, the Project Manager in Speech Technologies will be in charge of conducting the activities related to the production of language resources and the co-ordination of R&D projects. Their responsibilities include language resources design/specification, production frameworks and platforms setup, quality control and assessment, project-dedicated team members recruitment and management. They will also contribute to improving or updating of the current language resources production workflows. This yields excellent opportunities for qualified, creative, and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively in the Language Engineering field.

This yields excellent opportunities for qualified, creative, and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively in the Language Engineering field.

Required profile

• Master 2 or PhD in computer science specialised in speech technologies. A proven background in research (scientific publications) will be a strong plus
• Experience in and/or good knowledge of speech data collection with an expertise in phonetics and in transcription and annotation tools
• Experience in speech technologies (speech recognition, synthesis, language modelling) and the well-used tools to produce, collect and assess data quality
• Ability to experiment with various techniques for improving or building tools
• Experience in international project management
• Proficiency in Python programming language
• Good knowledge of scripting languages: bash, Python, Perl
• Good knowledge of Linux and open source software
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team
• Dynamic and communicative, flexible to combine and work on different tasks
• Proficiency in English with ability to write user guides, administration documentation and reports, and good mastering of French. Knowledge of other languages would be a plus.      
• Citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country

The position is based in Paris 13.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience (between 40-50K€).
Other benefits: complementary health insurance and meal vouchers

Programme Manager (m/f)

Under the supervision of the CEO, the Programme Manager will be in charge of conducting collaborative projects in the framework of international (specifically European) consortia, in the field of Human Language Technologies and Artificial Intelligence.

Their responsibilities include the coordination of projects both internally and in collaboration with external partners, including project plans design and follow up , project team management, delivery implementation, report drafting, participation in project meetings. They will work in collaboration with external partners at all steps of the project, including for the building and management of project teams. They will be involved in the submission of call for tenders liaising with external partners.

This yields excellent opportunities for qualified, creative, and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively in the Human Language Technology field.

The position is based in Paris 13.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience (between 40-60K€).

Other benefits: complementary health insurance and meal vouchers.

Required profile

• PhD in natural language processing or equivalent
• Experience in and good knowledge of various techniques in natural language processing (speech processing, data mining, machine translation, etc.)
• Experience in European-funded project management
• Experience in team management
• Experience and proficiency in project management tools
• High proficiency in English with strong writing and technical documentation skills
• Dynamic and communicative, flexible to combine and work on different tasks
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team
• Citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country

Contexte

ELDA (Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency, www.elda.org) a pour activités principales la distribution et la production de ressources linguistiques, ainsi que l’évaluation de technologies de la langue (traduction automatique, reconnaissance de la parole, etc.).

Dans le cadre de ses activités de production, ELDA offre un poste de transcripteur italien (H/F) à temps plein ou partiel pour la constitution d’un corpus de transcription de la langue italienne et pour l’évaluation et le développement d’un système de transcription automatique.

Mission

Il s’agit de transcrire une heure de conversations téléphoniques dans le domaine financier pour évaluer le système de transcription automatique. Le travail sera effectué via un logiciel et selon des conventions de transcription spécifiques. La formation au logiciel et aux conventions sera assurée par l’employeur. La mission aura lieu obligatoirement dans les locaux d’ELDA (Paris 13e) ou au siège du client (La Défense).

Profil recherché

• Natif de la langue italienne
• Très bon niveau d’orthographe et de grammaire italienne
  • Bonne connaissance de la langue française et/ou anglaise pour le suivi et la compréhension des conventions de transcription
  • Bonne maîtrise de l’outil informatique
  • Capacité à intégrer des règles (de transcription) et à les suivre scrupuleusement et avec constance

Durée

1 à 2 semaines environ (pour un temps plein)

Salaire

Salaire mensuel brut à 1747,20€ (pour 35h)

Les candidatures (CV, lettre de motivation) doivent être adressées à lucille@elda.org