Title: Linguist II
Location: Multiple Locations (Burlingame CA, Redmond WA , NYC)
Duration: 9 months
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 or near-native fluency in Brazilian Portuguese with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, data synthesis and data annotation tasks, translation-localization and ML 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, translation, localization and annotation efforts
• Create annotation systems and guidelines
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models
• Assess model and data quality
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent l inguistic 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 Brazilian Portuguese
• Awareness of Brazilian Portuguese linguistic, cultural, local norms
• 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) and their applications
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
Preferred (additional) 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)
• Intermediate or above skills in Python
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
Must-Have Skills
1 SQL and Python
2 Language skills: Brazilian Portuguese
3 Increasing. / Speeding things by this much
Resume should be more quantitative
Nice-to-have Skills
1 O ther language skills like Italian, India languages, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese
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