Linguist

Intelliswift - An LTTS Company; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Linguist for a remote position to develop language components for voice-enabled technologies. The ideal candidate must have a Master’s degree with native fluency in Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese, experience in linguistic data analysis, and familiarity with large language models. Responsibilities include providing linguist expertise, collaborating with teams on data operations, and evaluating data for ML models. This is a 9-month contract role.

Qualifications

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree with 3 years of experience in industry.
• Experience with speech and text data in multiple languages.
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams.
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions.

Skills

Native or near-native fluency in Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese

Data linguistic, RegEx

SQL

data analytics

data visualization

Education

Master's degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with emphasis on Romance languages

Tools

Python

Job description

Director - Technical Recruitment at Intelliswift Software, Inc.

Job Title: Linguist

Location: Remote

Duration: 9 months contract (Possible extensions)

We are looking for a Linguist to help us develop language components for a variety of voice-enabled technologies and products. We are seeking candidates with native fluency in Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese, with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, localization and quality evaluations.

2-3 years of experience

Must-Have Skills

• Master's degree or bachelor's degree with 3 years of experience in industry
• Data linguistic, RegEx, SQL, data analytics, data visualization

Nice-to-have Skills

Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, translation, localization and annotation efforts
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions
• Assess model and data quality
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field
• Native or near-native fluency in Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese, and at least another language
• Awareness of different Portuguese varieties and their linguistic, cultural, local nuances
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools