Linguist II

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop annotation guidelines
• Work with tooling engineers to develop and debug new annotation workflows.
• Extract actionable quantitative and qualitative insights from user traffic on a regular basis.
• Scale these annotation processes as we expand new features, new locales, and new devices.
• Collaborate with other linguists to ensure weekly deliverables are met.
• Work under tight timelines while overcoming occasional tooling challenges and data ingestion issues.

Skills:

• Knowledge of regular expressions, SQL, and Python.
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills both verbal and written.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Understanding of a digital assistant’s technical stack (ASR, Understanding, Entity Recognition, etc.).
• Understanding of a digital assistant’s feature set (Weather, Reminders, Chatbot, Calling, Messaging, etc.) and how they coexist together.
• Resilient to technical setbacks out of your control.
• Fast learner.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.