Job Description
Linguist II : 65286-1
Location: Onsite - New York OR Burlingame OR seattle
Duration: 9 months contract - May be extensions
Details:
We are looking for a Linguist to help us develop language components for a variety of voice-enabled technologies and products. We are seeking candidates with native fluency in Mandarin (Simplified Chinese) with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, localization and quality evaluations.
Job Responsibilities:
• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, translation, localization and annotation efforts
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions
• Assess model and data quality
• Prompt engineering
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses
Required Qualifications
• Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field
• Native or near-native fluency in Mandarin (Simplified Chinese), and at least another language
• Awareness of Indian languages and their linguistic, cultural, local nuances
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications • Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
Preferred (additional) Qualifications
• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
• Proficient in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
Must-Have Skills:
● Proficient in Mandarin language
● Masters degree is good - bachelors degree with experience
● Data linguistic, RegEx, SQL
Nice-to-have Skills:
● Python language
Years of Experience:
● 2-3 years of experience
● If they have masters degree and good academic background then no experience is fine
● If someone has bachelor's degree then we need at least 2 years of experience
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