Linguist

Tailored Management; United States; On-site; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Weekly pay

Job summary

Tailored Management is seeking a linguist to help develop language components for AI-powered products, including large language models (LLMs) and voice-enabled technologies. You will contribute to data collection, synthetic data generation, and annotation tasks in support of LLM/AI training, evaluation, alignment, and AI agent development.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree in linguistics or related field, 1+ years in linguistics or NLP, and fluency in English plus another language;

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Speech Science, or related field.
• 1+ years of experience in Linguistics, Language Technologies, NLP, or AI/ML data operations (or equivalent).
• Native or near-native fluency in English and at least one additional language.
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and related areas.
• Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), their applications and data practices (training data, evaluation, prompting, fine-tuning).
• Exposure to LLM evaluation methodologies (human evaluation, automated metrics, adversarial testing).
• Experience with semantic ontologies, taxonomies, or intent/slot frameworks.
• Proficiency using AI Agents/Chatbots.
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others).
• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with evolving priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop language components for AI-powered products, including LLMs and voice-enabled tech.
• Contribute to data collection, synthetic data generation, and annotation for AI training.
• Support evaluation, alignment, and AI agent development initiatives.

Skills

Linguistics

NLP Data Ops

SQL & Data Analysis

Multilingual Data

LLMs Familiarity

AI Agents

Sociolinguistics

Programming Basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Linguistics or related field

Tools

Hugging Face

spaCy

NLTK

PyTorch

Job description

Contract: 12-Months, Possibility for Extension/Conversion

Pay Rate: $53/hr, W2

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision and Weekly Pay

Job Overview

We are looking for a linguist to help develop language components for AI-powered products, including large language models (LLMs) and voice-enabled technologies. We are seeking candidates with solid linguistic data analysis skills, programming familiarity, and language technology experience to contribute to data collection, synthetic data generation, and annotation tasks in support of LLM/AI training, evaluation, alignment, and AI agent development.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Speech Science, or related field
• 1+ years of experience in Linguistics, Language Technologies, NLP, or AI/ML data operations (or equivalent)
• Native or near-native fluency in English and at least one additional language
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
• Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), their applications and data practices (training data, evaluation, prompting, fine-tuning)
• Exposure to LLM evaluation methodologies (human evaluation, automated metrics, adversarial testing)
• Experience working with semantic ontologies, taxonomies, or intent/slot frameworks
• Proficiency using AI Agents/Chatbots
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)
• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with evolving priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Technologies, or a related field
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks, NLP libraries, and tools (e.g., Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK, PyTorch)
• Exposure to statistical language modeling or training data pipelines
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.