Job Title:PhD Level Linguist II
Key Responsibilities:- Provide linguistic expertise in phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
- Design and conduct experiments to evaluate transcription quality.
- Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects, including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, Part-of-Speech (POS) identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.
- Create and refine text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
- Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
- Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and Part-of-Speech (POS) tagger performance, and address identified pain points.
Day to Day:- Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
- Collaborate with cross-functional (XFN) partners to gather and prepare audio files for Text-to-Speech (TTS) human evaluations.
- Work closely with external vendors to track evaluation progress, address issues or concerns, and ensure deliverables meet quality standards.
- Analyze received deliverables and provide actionable insights to cross-functional partners. Address detailed analysis requests from stakeholders regarding specific aspects of the results.
- Monitor and track annotation queues to ensure timely completion and identify bottlenecks or delays.
- Address and resolve questions from annotators regarding guidelines to ensure clarity and consistency in annotation tasks.
Minimum Qualifications:- Technical Skills
- Structured Query Language (SQL) Skills
- Strong Project Management Skills
Preferred Qualifications:- Linguistic knowledge - ability to understand errors
Location: Remote [USA - ONLY]
Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $74,800 - $124,800 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]
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Preferred Skills SQL
- Python
- Phd
- Arabic language
Job details Job ID 332928
Role PhD level Linguist II
Location Burlingame, California, US
Job type Direct Hire
Recruiter Khushi
Email
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