Infrastructure Engineering - Linguist III

Immediate need for a talented Infrastructure Engineering - Linguist III. This is a 06+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in US (Remote). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID:26-29173
Pay Range: $50 - $53/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:

• Perform linguistic analyses on large datasets.
• Conduct linguistic error analysis of AI model outputs, identifying frequent and severe error categories.
• Write and revise guidelines for human annotation and AI projects, including translation tasks.
• Conduct typological and sociolinguistic research on various languages, highlighting their similarities and differences.
• Analyze linguistic aspects for Responsible AI, addressing issues like toxic language and cultural biases.
• Collaborate with native speakers and communicate findings to engineers and research scientists.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• 0-3 years of experience in linguistics or a related field.
• A PhD in Linguistics is required.
• Native/Near-native proficiency in target language (Tagalog / Filipino / Cebuano, Thai / Lao, Swahili, Hebrew / Amharic / Tigrinya) and English.
• Basic to intermediate proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Strong knowledge in NLP / Computational Language Analysis.
• Expertise in Syntax, Morphology, Sociolinguistics, Typology & Corpus Linguistics.
• Experience with fieldwork in linguistics.
• Background in corpus linguistics.
• Familiarity with international language-classification standards.
• Working knowledge of additional languages

Our client is a leading Social Media Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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