Language Technology Developer

As a language technology developer, you write code that teaches computers to understand words and sentences like a person does. You might build a translator app, a chatbot that answers questions, or software that picks out what people are feeling in their writing. It sounds like magic, but you are just teaching the computer patterns about how language works.

Your days are a mix of coding and problem-solving. You'll write programs, test them to see if they work, and fix them when they go wrong. You'll work with linguists - people who study language - to make sure your code handles words from different languages and cultures correctly. You might sit in an office, at home, or in a team room, usually in front of a computer screen. The hardest part is making the computer understand what words really mean, not just recognise the letters.