About the role:- The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data based model and product improvements.
Job Title: Senior Linguist
Key Responsibilities:- Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
- Design and conduct experiments for evaluating 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 perfect 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 remedy pain points.
Minimum Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
- Minimum 3+ years in Phonetics, Phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
- Native or near-nativespeaker of at least 2 languages includingEnglishas one of the languages.
- Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
- Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
- Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems.
- Working knowledge with Python, SQL and Large Language Models (LLM's).
Preferred Qualifications:- Master's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
- Prior FAANG/Big Tech
Location: Onsite in one of these offices [Burlingame, CA or Redmond, WA]
Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $68,640 - $128,160 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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This job is no longer accepting applicationsPreferred SkillsLinguistics
- Python
- SQL
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- Data Annotation
