Linguist – Multilingual AI Research

Career Moves Group I B Corp™; United Kingdom; Presencial; GBP 45 000 - 68 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Career Moves Group I B Corp™ is recruiting a Linguist to support multilingual and low-resource language research within a leading global technology organisation's AI research team. The role focuses on linguistic analysis, dataset development and evaluation across large multilingual corpora, working with ML/NLP engineers and data scientists.

You will leverage a strong academic background in general/theoretical linguistics and Python to inspect model outputs, refine guidelines and contribute to

Qualificações

• PhD in Linguistics or closely related field required.
• Native or near-native English.
• Proficiency in a Dravidian or Bantu language (Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu or Swahili).
• Experience with Python and data-analysis notebooks.
• Exposure to NLP, machine translation or multilingual AI.
• Strong research, analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently on research projects.
• Experience collaborating with ML/NLP engineers and data scientists.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct linguistic analysis across large multilingual datasets.
• Analyse AI model outputs and identify linguistic errors and patterns.
• Help build, refine and test multilingual evaluation datasets.
• Develop and improve annotation and translation guidelines.
• Conduct typological, sociolinguistic and corpus-based research.
• Analyse syntax, morphology, pragmatics, phonology, dialect variation and writing systems.
• Support Responsible AI research, including cultural and linguistic bias analysis.
• Review academic literature and translate findings into practical recommendations.
• Assess language-data quality and provide actionable feedback.
• Use Python/pandas notebooks to inspect and analyse linguistic data.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers and native-language speakers.

Conhecimentos

Linguistics

Python

Research

Analytical skills

Communication

Formação académica

PhD in Linguistics or related field

Ferramentas

Python

Descrição da oferta de emprego

We are recruiting for a Linguist to join a leading global technology organisation’s cutting-edge AI research team, supporting multilingual and low-resource language research.

This is a research-focused opportunity for someone with a strong academic background in general/theoretical linguistics who is also comfortable working with data and Python. You’ll collaborate with research scientists, machine learning engineers and data scientists on the evaluation and development of multilingual AI systems.

What you’ll be doing

• Conduct linguistic analysis across large multilingual datasets
• Analyse AI model outputs and identify linguistic errors and patterns
• Help build, refine and test multilingual evaluation and challenge datasets
• Develop and improve annotation and translation guidelines
• Conduct typological, sociolinguistic and corpus-based research
• Analyse areas including syntax, morphology, pragmatics, phonology, dialect variation and writing systems
• Support Responsible AI research, including cultural and linguistic bias analysis
• Review academic literature and translate findings into practical recommendations
• Assess language-data quality and provide actionable feedback
• Use Python/pandas notebooks to inspect and analyse linguistic data
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers and native-language speakers

What we’re looking for

• Completed PhD in Linguistics or a closely related linguistic discipline
• Native or near-native English
• Native or near-native proficiency in a Dravidian or Bantu language, particularly Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu or Swahili/Kiswahili
• Experience using Python, including reading, adapting and running data-analysis notebooks
• Some exposure to NLP, machine translation, speech technology or multilingual AI
• Strong research, analytical and communication skills
• Comfortable working independently across fast-moving and sometimes ambiguous research projects
• Experience collaborating with technical stakeholders such as ML/NLP engineers, data scientists or research scientists

Experience with low-resource languages, corpus linguistics, multilingual datasets, language typology or AI evaluation would be particularly valuable.

The opportunity

You’ll join a fundamental AI research environment working on challenging problems in multilingual AI, spanning translation, linguistic reasoning, speech and culturally nuanced language understanding.