Linguist III (Fully Onsite)

Job Title: Linguist III
Location: Onsite in Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA
Contract Duration: 6 months
Pay rate: $60/hr on W2
Benefits: PTO, Heath, Dental, Vision


Our client is looking for a Linguist to help us develop language components for a variety of voice-enabled technologies and products.
They are seeking for a 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

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in general Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related field
• 2-3 Years of experience working in a Linguist role
• Experience with regular expression encoding
• Proficiency in Python
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
• Experience working with speech and text data
• 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)

Preferred (additional) Qualifications:

• Master’s or PhD in Linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
• 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. #TMN