Linguistic-Japanese

Job Title: Linguistic-Japanese
Location: Onsite - New York , burlingame and seattle
Contract: 9 Months(Possibility for Extensions)
Pay Rate: $57.63/hr, W2
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, and weekly Pay

Job 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 native fluency in Japanese 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.

Job 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
• Prompt engineering
• 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 Japanese, and at least another language
• Awareness of Indian languages 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
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Preferred (additional) 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

Must-Have Skills:

• Proficient in Japanese language
• Masters degree is good - bachelors degree with experience
• data linguistic, RegEx, SQL

Nice-to-have Skills:

• Python language

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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