Linguist III/Remote

Job Title: Linguist III
Location: Remote
Pay Rate: $61.76/hr, W2
Contract: 6 Months
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision and Weekly Pay

Job Summary:

• The main function of a Linguist is to develop annotation workflows to assess product quality and analyze datasets, providing insights to XFN stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities:(4-5 Yrs)

• 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(Required)

Must-Have Skills:

• Proficiency/Familiarity in Python
• Querying in SQL
• Working autonomously - demonstrated ability to run their own project

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience working directly with engineering partners - supporting the building of LLMs, prompt engineering.

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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