Hybrid Linguistic Infrastructure Engineer III

Pyramid Consulting, Inc; Burlingame (CA); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 77,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. has an immediate contract opening for Infrastructure Engineering - Linguist III in Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA.

This 06+ months hybrid role focuses on linguistic expertise and NLP QA for ASR projects, with strong emphasis on transcription and labeling quality. The selected candidate will design experiments, manage labeling workflows, and work closely with engineers on phonetics, IPA/SAMPA, and ToBI standards.

Qualifications

• BA/MA/PhD in linguistics with applied linguistics knowledge (phonetics/phonology).
• Proficiency in Python and SQL required.
• Experience with transcription/annotation systems (SAMPA/IPA/ToBI).
• Experience in computational linguistics/ASR quality evaluation (WER/CER/SER).
• Hands-on experience with annotator training and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise in phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Design and conduct experiments to evaluate transcription quality.
• Develop manual and automated processes for concurrent projects ensuring high-quality label alignments and POS tagging.
• Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical/transcription metadata.
• Analyze system metrics to remedy pain points.

Skills

Python

SQL

Linguistics knowledge

Communication skills

ASR quality evaluation

Dataset creation

Waveform analysis

Education

BA/MA/PhD in linguistics

Tools

SAMPA

IPA

ToBI

Job description

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. has an immediate contract opening for Infrastructure Engineering - Linguist III in Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA.

This 06+ months hybrid role focuses on linguistic expertise and NLP QA for ASR projects, with strong emphasis on transcription and labeling quality. The selected candidate will design experiments, manage labeling workflows, and work closely with engineers on phonetics, IPA/SAMPA, and ToBI standards.