Keywords are an international technical service provider to the global Video Game Industry with offices in Dublin, Tokyo, Singapore, Los Angeles, Seattle, Montreal, Milan, Barcelona, Madrid and Rome. Working on a worldwide basis, we provide a range of linguistic, testing, and quality control services to Video Game Developers and Publishers alike.

We at Keywords are looking for a Senior Localization Engineer to be part of our international team responsible for developing the technology supporting the Keywords Studios group videogames translation workflows.

Requirements

The candidate would work in the Localization Engineering team assisting in technology rollouts, development of tools for production, daily support to Localization Project Managers, constant optimization of localization processes, support to external clients in designing the best workflows to meet their needs.

Skills required

University degree in computer science or equivalent background
At least 2 to 3 years experience in software development
Knowledge of programming languages (VB, VBA, C#, Java), scripting (Python, Perl, JavaScript) and markup languages (XML, HTML, XLIFF); confidence with API programming
Experience writing SQL queries is a plus
Advanced knowledge of regular expressions and text manipulation
Excellent knowledge of most important CAT tools on the market (memoQ, XTM, Memsource, Wordbee, etc.)
Advanced knowledge of internationalization good practices and experience with internationalization of web and mobile applications
Knowledge of multilingual localization issues and procedures (managing characters set and encoding, text direction, text strings sorting and handling)
Knowledge of Machine Translation technology is a plus
Able to communicate effectively with stakeholders who have varying levels of technical expertise
Fluent in English
Passion for global solutions, international customers, and teamwork
Focus on automation.

Behavioral Skills Required

Good problem-solving skills combined with strong analytical abilities to find creative solutions
Team player
Strong time management, organizational and support skills
Strongly service oriented, to efficiently support internal and external customers

Key Responsibilities

Set up specific environments and tools for localization
Identify and extract localizable content from complex formats
Convert final translated assets back to original formats
Automate asset transfer from and to customers portals
Troubleshooting issues coming from production, originating from translation process
Contribute actively to the design, development and deployment of new production processes
Development of tools for production
Customize localization workflows and facilitate integration of localization tools with different source content repositories
Review and anticipate potential globalization issues for new features, locales and technology
Analysis of web sites and applications for localization potential and time/material requirements
Ensure compliance with clients requirements and integrity of data
Provide support to operations and sales management
Work with other developers and engineers to implement technical solutions for end-to-end localization processes
Review business requirements and identify technical design that is required to meet the business needs