Linguist II

Title: Linguist II (French)

Location: Remote

Duration: 12 months

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, localization and annotation efforts

• Create annotation systems and guidelines

• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models

• Use grammar-based methods and programmatic templates for generating annotated data

• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating model and data quality

• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

MUST HAVE:

1. French
2. Python
3. SQL
4. Data Annotation/Collection
5. AI/LLM

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field

• Two (2) or more years of experience in Linguistics, Language Technologies, or NLP

• Native fluency in Mexican Spanish

• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics

• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)

• Experience with language annotation or other forms of data markup and tagging

• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field

• Experience in building semantic ontologies and semantic relation frameworks

• Experience with statistical language modeling

• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment

• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented