Linguist III

Title: Linguist III
Location: Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA
Duration: 12 Months
Pay: $50-57/hr on W2

Summary
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 strong
linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering,
rule-based classifier encoding, and quality evaluations.

Job Responsibilities
Provide linguistic expertise while delivering data for large language models
Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection,
data curation, and annotation efforts
Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions
Assess model performance and data quality
Prompt engineering
Create guidelines in support of labeling projects that enable annotators to
consistently label language data at quality
Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

Education:
Bachelor's degree in general Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related field. Master/PhDs would be preferred not required

Must Have:

• Proficiency/Familiarity in Python and Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets)
• Experience with regular expression encoding
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications

Nice to Have:

• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
• 2-3 Years of experience working in a Linguist role
• Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.
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