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hatch I.T.

NLP/Linguistics Software Engineer

hatch I.T.

NLP Software Engineer at Babel Street developing text analytics and AI-driven features. Collaborating with engineers to enhance record matching on their analytics platform.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeSomerville • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudElasticSearchJavaKubernetesPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Implement and Maintain: Write high-quality, maintainable code to support the analytics platform and its record matching components.
  • Bridge Theory and Practice: Take theoretical ideas from linguistics and data science and implement them as practical software features.
  • Support Search Internals: Help optimize and maintain search engine components, including Elasticsearch data modeling and performance tuning.
  • Collaborate and Learn: Participate in agile sprint planning and work daily with senior partners to translate project requirements into technical solutions.
  • Build Scalable Systems: Assist in designing and shipping robust APIs and scalable architectures that integrate into our AI-native platform.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience (including high-impact internships or projects).
  • Proficiency in Java (our core analytics language) or Python (for AI/ML integrations).
  • Problem Solver: Ability to work across teams and make steady progress in ambiguous problem spaces.
  • Educational Foundation: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, or a related technical field.
  • Foundation in Data Science: Experience with data quality evaluation, data annotation, or guideline design, preferably for linguistics.
  • Familiarity with Elasticsearch internals or other search/retrieval-based systems.
  • Exposure to computational linguistics or natural language processing (NLP).
  • Interest in Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaPythonAPIsdata quality evaluationdata annotationguideline designElasticsearchcomputational linguisticsnatural language processingcloud-native architectures
Soft Skills
problem solvingcollaborationagile methodology