Linguist III

Job Title: Linguist III

Location: Redmond, WA

Duration: Contract - 12 months

Pay Range: $41/hr $44/hr (W2)

Job ID: 409424

About BCforward

BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.

Job Description

We are seeking a Linguistic Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in building, maintaining, and analyzing datasets for LLM-powered features and a proven ability to design data quality workflows, conduct evaluations, and deliver actionable analytics that improve model performance in smart glasses applications.

Responsibilities:

• Aggregate cross-functional requests and translate them into actionable, high-quality datasets using synthetic data and live user traffic.


• Deliver analytics, statistics, and model performance results on datasets.


• Design and conduct experiments to evaluate rater quality and inter-rater reliability, produce summary reports, and present findings.


• Develop manual and automated processes across concurrent projects to ensure high-quality labeled data.


• Create and refine LLM quality grading queues and error-attribution grading queues for LLM components.


• Build datasets and author guidelines quickly for new and emergent LLM data rating, creation, and annotation needs.


• Analyze system metrics such as factuality, brevity, and coherence, assess subcomponent performance, summarize insights, and communicate results.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Basic to intermediate proficiency in Python and SQL, with a demonstrated desire to grow.


• Foundational knowledge of linguistics, such as phonetics, syntax, semantics, or dialectology.


• Ability to analyze numerical rating results and draw data-driven conclusions.


• Basic statistics and math for data analysis.


• Clear written and oral communication for milestone updates and reporting findings.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with data quality pipelines, rater management, and inter-rater reliability frameworks.


• Background in LLM evaluation, prompt quality assessment, or annotation guideline development.

Why BCforward?

At BCforward, we believe in advancing lives and careers. When you join our team, you gain access to:

• Competitive compensation and benefits.


• Opportunities for growth with global clients.


• A supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people.


• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and projects.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.


• Master's degree or beyond preferred, or equivalent industry experience.


• Supplemental learning via Coursera, Udemy, or similar platforms is welcome.

About Our Commitment

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Interested? Apply Now!

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply with your most recent resume.

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