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Natural Language Understanding Engineer

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April 29, 2024 Updated June 6, 2024 3 minute read

Natural Language Understanding Engineer is a career role relating to the field of artificial intelligence. The career of a Natural Language Understanding Engineer is focused on developing and building Natural Language Processing (NLP) models to empower computers to comprehend the human language. NLP is a sub-field of artificial intelligence specifically focused on language as a form of data. 

What Does a Natural Language Understanding Engineer Do?

Natural Language Understanding is highly specialized and involves a great deal of programming. The role requires an understanding of how computers can learn from data, also known as machine learning. 

As a Natural Language Understanding Engineer, you may use a variety of programming languages, such as Python and Java, to carry out your daily tasks. The work often includes data collection, data preparation, model selection, model training, and model evaluation. Natural Language Understanding Engineers apply algorithms and mathematical models to language data so that computers are able to understand and produce human language.

Skills of a Natural Language Understanding Engineer

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Salaries for Natural Language Understanding Engineer

City
Median
New York
$186,000
San Francisco
$297,000
Seattle
$184,000
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City
Median
New York
$186,000
San Francisco
$297,000
Seattle
$184,000
Austin
$164,000
Toronto
$134,000
London
£97,000
Paris
€61,000
Berlin
€77,000
Tel Aviv
₪610,000
Singapore
S$125,000
Beijing
¥452,000
Shanghai
¥523,000
Bengalaru
₹600,000
Delhi
₹894,000
Bars indicate relevance. All salaries presented are estimates. Completion of this course does not guarantee or imply job placement or career outcomes.

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