Job Title : Linguist III
Location : Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA
Contract : 6 Months
Pay Rate : $61.76 / hr, W2
Benefits : Medical, Dental, Vision and Weekly Pay
Job Summary :
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, rule-based classifier encoding, and quality evaluations.
Job Responsibilities : (4-5+ Years)
- Provide linguistic expertise while delivering data for large language models
- Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, and annotation efforts
- Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions
- Assess model performance and data quality
- Prompt engineering
- Create guidelines in support of labeling projects that enable annotators to consistently label language data at quality
- Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses
Required Qualifications :
Bachelor’s degree in general Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related fieldExperience with regular expression encodingKnowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguisticsProficiency in PythonExperience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets)Experience working with speech and text dataFamiliar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applicationsComfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environmentStrong organizational skills and detail orientedExcellent communication skills both verbal and writtenPreferred Qualifications :
Master’s or PhD in Linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related fieldExperience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools2-3 Years of experience working in a Linguist roleConversational assistant, ML Support, LLMsMust-Have Skills :
Proficiency / Familiarity in Python and Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets)Experience with regular expression encodingFamiliar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applicationsNice-to-Have Skills :
Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools2-3 Years of experience working in a Linguist roleConversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs