Linguist II

Job Title
:
Linguist II

Location
: US - CA - Remote

We are looking for a Linguist to help us develop language components for a variety of voice‑enabled technologies and products. We seek candidates 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.

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics.
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, curation, translation, localization and annotation efforts.
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions.
• Assess model and data quality.
• Perform prompt engineering.
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses.

• Master’s degree in general Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field.
• 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 (e.g., SQL, Reg Ex, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others).
• Experience with Python.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git, Git Hub, Git Lab, Bitbucket).
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP libraries and tools.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

IT Services and IT Consulting