Linguist (Brazilian Portuguese)

Prolim; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Linguist specializing in Brazilian Portuguese to contribute linguistic expertise in phonetics, phonology, and NLP. This role involves creating and perfecting text normalization processes, conducting experiments for transcription quality, and managing transcription projects. The ideal candidate will possess a strong command of linguistics, excellent communication skills, and proficiency in scripting languages. Join a forward-thinking team where your contributions will enhance language technologies and make a significant impact on multiple projects.

Qualifications

• Native Brazilian Portuguese speaker or near-native fluency required.
• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics or related field is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise in phonetics, phonology, and NLP.
• Manage transcription processes and analyze system metrics.

Skills

Brazilian Portuguese fluency

Knowledge of phonetics

Knowledge of phonology

Sociolinguistics knowledge

Dialectology knowledge

Command line/scripting/coding skills

Waveform analysis

Excellent communication skills

Knowledge in transcription systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in linguistics

Degree in language technologies

Degree in computational linguistics

Degree in speech science

Job description

PROLIM Global Corporation (www.prolim.com) is currently seeking Linguist (Brazilian Portuguese) for location Burlingame, California, United States for one of our Top clients.

Job Description:

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

Skills:

1. Native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese or demonstrated near-native fluency.
2. Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and other areas of linguistics.
3. Command line/scripting/coding skills (Python, bash, regexes).
4. Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
5. Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
6. Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA, and ToBI.

Education/Experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

Apply online for immediate consideration. Please send your updated resume and contact info via email to [e-mail].