Linguist

Director - Technical Recruitment at Intelliswift Software, Inc. Job Title: Linguist Location: Remote Duration: 9 months contract (Possible extensions) 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 Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese , with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, localization and quality evaluations. 2-3 years of experience Must-Have Skills Master's degree or bachelor's degree with 3 years of experience in industry Data linguistic, RegEx, SQL, data analytics, data visualization Nice-to-have Skills 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 Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses Required Qualifications 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 Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese, and at least another language Awareness of different Portuguese varieties 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 Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others) Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment Preferred Qualifications: 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr