Linguist III

Remote

9 months

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 native fluency in Mexican Spanish and with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, data synthesis and data annotation tasks, localization and ML model improvements.

Top 3 Must-have HARD Skills

1 Native fluency in French/Italian

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

3 Experience with programming and data analysis with languages and platforms such as Python and SQL with intermediate fluency.

Skills

Good to have skills:

1 Experience in building semantic ontologies, semantic relation frameworks, voice assistance or AI.

2 Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environmentJob

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
  
  

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
  
  

About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com

Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

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