Multilingual AI Linguist for Low-Resource NLP Research

Career Moves Group I B Corp™; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

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

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Linguistics

Python

Research

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

PhD in Linguistics or related field

Tools

Python

Job description

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