Linguist II

Service Global • Sunnyvale, CA

93d • Remote

About The Position

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 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.

Requirements

• Master's degree in general Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field
• 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)
• Experience with python
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Nice To Haves

• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level