Linguist Jobs

Role: Linguist II

Location: 100% remote

Duration: 12 Months contract possibility of extension

: Approved Remote Locations: Denver, CO (***), New York, NY (***), Houston, TX (***), Los Angeles, CA (***), and San Diego, CA (***).

Summary:

The main function of a Linguist is to determine audio/written data needs and setting strategic vision for data-based model and product improvements. We are seeking candidates with native or near-native fluency in Spanish (Spain Spanish) and with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, data synthesis and data annotation tasks, localization and Client model improvements.

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, localization and annotation efforts

• Create annotation systems and guidelines

• Evaluate and curate data sets for Client models

• Use grammar-based methods, prompt engineering and programmatic templates for generating annotated data

• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating model and data quality

• Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.

• Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.

• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

Skills:

• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.

• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.

• Native or near-native fluency in Spanish (Spain-Spanish)

• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics

• Experience with language annotation or other forms of data markup and tagging

• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Education/Experience:

• Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field

• Two (2) or more years of experience in Linguistics, Language Technologies, or NLP

• Native or near-native fluency in Spanish (Spain-Spanish)

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field

• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)

• Experience in building semantic ontologies and semantic relation frameworks

• Experience with statistical language modeling

• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment

• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented