Infrastructure Engineering - Linguist III

Pyramid Consulting, Inc.; Redmond (WA); Ibrido; USD 69.000 - 77.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid sick leave

Descrizione del lavoro

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. seeks an Infrastructure Engineering - Linguist III for a 06+ months hybrid contract in Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA. You will apply linguistic expertise to NLP and ASR tasks, design experiments, and develop scalable transcription processes.

Strong foundations in linguistics and proficiency in Python/SQL are required, along with experience in SAMPA/IPA/ToBI. This role emphasizes high-quality data, waveform analysis, and cross-project collaboration.

Competenze

• Foundational linguistics background (BA/MA/PhD) with applied linguistics knowledge.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience in computational linguistics / ASR with quality evaluation (WER/CER/SER).
• Familiarity with transcription/annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA, ToBI.

Mansioni

• Provide linguistic expertise in phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Design experiments to evaluate transcription quality.
• Develop processes for multiple projects ensuring high-quality label alignments and prosodic classification.
• Create text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical transcriptions and related metadata.
• Analyze system metrics to identify and fix pain points.

Conoscenze

Linguistics

NLP/ASR

Communication skills

Formazione

BA/MA/PhD in linguistics

Strumenti

Python

SQL

SAMPA

IPA

ToBI

Descrizione del lavoro

Immediate need for a talented Infrastructure Engineering - Linguist III. This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA(Hybrid).

Job ID:26-29498

Pay Range: $50/hr - $56/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise in phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.
• Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects, ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.
• Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
• Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance to remedy pain points.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Foundational linguistics background — a BA/MA/PhD in linguistics, with applied linguistics knowledge (phonetics, phonology, familiarity with spoken vs. written forms).
• Technical skills — proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Knowledge of transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.
• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
• Experience in computational linguistics / ASR with quality evaluation using WER/CER/SER, dataset creation, and quality assessment (both commissioned and synthetic).
• Hands-on experience with human grading operations, writing guidelines, and training annotators.
• Familiarity with both offline/synthetic data and live traffic quality evaluation for voice assistants.

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.