Linguistics Expert (Native Spanish Only)

Innodata Inc.; Alicante; Presencial; EUR 35.000 - 55.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading data engineering company in Alicante is seeking a Linguistics Expert to support AI training initiatives and create high-quality linguistic content. The role requires a strong academic background in linguistics and involves responsibilities such as content creation, quality assurance on model outputs, and linguistic data annotation. Ideal candidates should possess strong writing, editing, and communication skills, with a deep understanding of linguistic theory. This position offers an opportunity to influence the development of innovative AI solutions.

Formación

• Deep understanding of linguistic theory and language structure.
• Experience in computational linguistics, corpus analysis, or language data annotation is a plus.
• Strong writing, editing, and communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Create or edit linguistically-rich content including grammar guides and usage explanations.
• Identify and resolve ambiguity, bias, and grammaticality issues.
• Perform quality assurance on model outputs for fluency and accuracy.
• Annotate linguistic datasets with relevant labels.
• Conduct linguistic research and summarize findings.
• Evaluate model behavior and error patterns.

Conocimientos

Linguistic theory understanding

Strong writing and editing skills

Communication skills

Educación

Strong academic background in linguistics

Descripción del empleo

Innodata (NASDAQ: INOD) is a leading data engineering company. With more than 2,000 customers and operations in 13 cities around the world, we are an AI technology solutions provider‑of‑choice for 4 out of 5 of the world's biggest technology companies, as well as leading companies across financial services, insurance, technology, law, and medicine.

By combining advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) technologies, a global workforce of subject matter experts, and a high‑security infrastructure, we’re helping usher in the promise of AI.

Innodata offers a powerful combination of both digital data solutions and easy‑to‑use, high‑quality platforms.

Our global workforce includes over 5,000 employees in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Israel and Germany.

About The Role

We are seeking a highly analytical and detail‑oriented linguist to support AI training initiatives and linguistic content creation. This role is ideal for someone with a strong academic background in linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology, phonology, sociolinguistics, etc.) and a passion for language, technology, and clear communication. You will play a crucial role in shaping the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and NLP‑based systems through high‑quality linguistic data curation, annotation, and evaluation.

Job Title: Linguistics Expert – AI Training & Content Writing

Key Responsibilities

• Create or edit linguistically‑rich content including grammar guides, syntactic analyses, usage explanations, or examples for NLP pipelines.
• Identify and resolve issues related to ambiguity, bias, and grammaticality.
• Perform quality assurance (QA) on model outputs for fluency, tone, factual accuracy, and language appropriateness.
• Annotate linguistic datasets with syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic labels.
• Support internal teams by conducting linguistic research and summarizing findings.
• Apply linguistic knowledge to evaluate model behavior, error patterns, and generalization issues.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of linguistic theory and language structure.
• Experience with one or more of the following is a plus: computational linguistics, corpus analysis, language data annotation, LLM training.
• Strong writing, editing, and communication skills.

Next Steps

• Assessment Test – evaluates your linguistic and analytical skills.
• Versant English Proficiency Test – focuses on assessing your spoken and written English proficiency.
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