Language-based job titles

One of the reasons I use LinkedIn is to find out about the emerging trends and developments in the language industry. There are an awful lot more different kinds of language-based jobs in the industry than “translator” or “interpreter”. I am collating a list of them here:

• Community interpreter
• Computer linguist
• Content localizer
• Corpus linguist
• Court interpreter
• Data scientist for machine translation
• Interpreter
• Language and communications analyst
• Language and culture advisor
• Language asset manager
• Language data manager/curator
• Language engineer
• Language technologist
• Lawyer-linguist
• Legal translator
• Linguistic asset management
• Linguistic editor
• Localization manager
• Machine learning supervisor
• Machine translation post editor
• Multilingual knowledge manager
• Proof-reader
• (Translation) Project manager
• Sensitivity reader
• Subtitler
• Terminologist
• Translation data engineer
• Translation engine trainer
• Translation quality officer
• Translation workflow engineer
• Translator
• Website optimizer

Acknowledgements: LinkedIn post by BDÜ Baden-Württemberg e.V.