Data Linguist

Ai Data Innovations; A distancia; MXN 200,000 - 400,000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

A data technology firm is seeking a Data Linguist specializing in Mexican Spanish. In this remote role, you will work closely with engineers, providing linguistic expertise for various NLP tasks. You'll be responsible for creating guidelines, data annotation, and testing processes. Ideal candidates should have native fluency in Spanish, a BA/BS degree, and familiarity with voice assistants. Strong organizational and communication skills are essential for success in this collaborative environment.

Formación

• Native level fluency in Spanish (Written, Verbal and grammar).
• Business level fluency in English.
• Familiarity with voice assistants (Bixby, Siri, Google Assistant, etc).

Responsabilidades

• Provide linguistic expertise for NLP and data generation tasks.
• Write documentation and review data for improvements.
• Perform data annotation, transcription, and testing tasks.

Conocimientos

Proactive problem-solving

Excellent communication

Strong organizational skills

Detail-oriented

Collaborative teamwork

Educación

BA or BS degree

BA/BS in Linguistics or equivalent experience

Herramientas

Microsoft Office/Excel

Descripción del empleo

Data Linguist - Mexican Spanish

Job Type: Contractor: Remote but able to work US Central Time (8am-12pm)

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineers by providing linguistic expertise and direction for language specific NLP, data generation, annotation on projects, and / or dialogue analysis and modeling.
• Including writing documentation and guidelines, reviewing data and test results and proposing improvements and new features.
• Perform tasks such as data annotation, phonetic transcription, speech synthesis, machine translation, natural utterance generation, grammar checking, ASR transcription, automation and other NLP related tasks.
• Building a thorough understanding of data labeling conventions and provide support to internal team and external partners.
• Localizing established guidelines from English into Spanish.
• Test data and product and help Identify and eliminate bugs.
• Delivering high quality data output under aggressive deadlines.
• Working autonomously with minimum direction.
• Handling unique data analysis requests from a range of data customers.
• Contributing to process improvements to reduce handling time and improve data output.
• Diving deep into issues and implement solutions independently.
• Providing quality expertise to other team members and coaching improvements.
• In addition, the Spanish Language Data Linguist will need to quickly understand changes in response to customers' requests and change workflows accordingly.

Qualifications and Skills

• Show proactive efforts in addressing issues and problems.
• Excellent communication, strong organizational skills and very detail-oriented.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment.
• Willingness to support several projects at one time, and to accept re-prioritization as necessary.
• Ability to keep up with changing project conventions and priorities.

Basic Qualifications

• BA or BS degree.
• Native level fluency in Spanish (Written, Verbal and grammar).
• Business level fluency in English.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office / Excel.
• Familiarity with voice assistants (Bixby, Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, Cortana, etc) on a regular basis.

Preferred Qualifications

• BA / BS degree in Linguistics or equivalent practical experience working with language data.
• Native level fluency in English, both verbal and written.
• Experienced working with data vendors.
• Have data curation, data quality or software QA experience.
• Have Python or other programming experience.
• Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts and learn in-house tools.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Independent, proactive, and self-motivated with record in timely delivery of requests.
• Team player with exceptional interpersonal and solution-oriented attitude.

Job Types: Temporary, Contract

Contract Length: 3 months

Pay: $ - $ per hour

COVID-19 considerations: Remote position