Linguist III

Job Description:
Job Title: Linguist III
Location: Onsite in Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA
Duration: 12 months to begin with
Pay rate: $50-$55/hour on W2

Summary:

• Client is looking for a Linguist to help us develop language components for a variety of voice-enabled technologies and products.
• Client is 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:

• 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 field
• Experience with regular expression encoding
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets)
• Experience working with speech and text data
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's or PhD in Linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
• 4 to 5 plus Years of experience working in a Linguist role
• Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs

Note:

• Onsite is Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA

Pay Range: $50 - $55/hour on W2

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.

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