Job Description

Position: Linguist II
Location: US- Remote
Duration: 06+ months Contract
Job ID: 172234

Job Overview:
We are seeking a skilled Linguist II to contribute to the development of language components for various voice-enabled technologies and products. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in linguistic data analysis and language technology, with experience in managing data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis, data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, localization, and quality evaluations. This role requires a collaborative and detail-oriented professional who thrives in a dynamic work environment.

Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.
• Collaborate with linguists and data operations teams on data collection, curation, translation, localization, and annotation efforts.
• Evaluate and curate data sets for machine learning models using LLM solutions.
• Assess model and data quality.
• Perform prompt engineering tasks.
• Develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses collaboratively.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in General Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics.
• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages.
• Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and their applications.
• Proficiency in database queries and data analysis processes (e.g., SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix).
• Experience with Python programming.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Preferred (Additional) Qualifications:

• PhD in Linguistics, Romance Languages, Language Technologies, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Python programming.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket).
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks, NLP libraries, and tools.

 

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Pay Range: $40 - $45

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.

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