Linguist II

Crystal Equation Corporation; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 66,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401K

Parental leave

Job summary

Crystal Equation Corporation is seeking a Linguist II onsite to guide data-driven linguistic work and model improvements. You will apply phonetics, phonology, and NLP expertise to enhance transcription quality and lexical resources.

The role requires evaluating data, developing automated labeling pipelines, and analyzing metrics to improve model performance. Excellent communication and a bachelor’s in linguistics or related field are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field.

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 including label alignments, prosodic classification, POS tagging, and data preparation.
• Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
• Analyze system metrics and remedy pain points such as lexicon coverage and POS tagger performance.

Skills

Phonetics

Phonology

Sociolinguistics

Dialectology

NLP

Waveform Analysis

Prescriptive Writing

Communication Skills

Transcription Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in linguistics or related field

Tools

SAMPA

IPA

ToBI

Job description

Linguist II Onsite Summary

The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data based model and product improvements.

Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.
• 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.
• 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 and remedy pain points.

Requirements

• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.
• Bachelors degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

Pay range is $48 - $53 per hour with full benefits available, including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/life insurance, 401K, parental leave, and more. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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