Computational Linguist - Indian Languages

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, translation, localization and annotation efforts
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions
• Assess model and data quality
• Prompt engineering
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

Skills:

• Proficient in Indian languages
• Master’s degree is good - bachelor’s degree with experience
• data linguistic, RegEx, SQL
• Python language
• 2-3 years of experience
• If they have master’s degree and good academic background then no experience is fine

Education/Experience:

• Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field
• Native or near-native fluency in Hindi, Telugu and/or Bengali
• Awareness of Indian languages and their linguistic, cultural, local nuances
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages
• 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
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)
• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field,
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools