Linguist III

Spectraforce Technologies; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies is seeking a Linguist III to contribute to language component development for voice-enabled technologies. The role involves managing data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis, data annotation, prompt engineering, and quality evaluations.

The ideal candidate will have strong linguistic data analysis skills, Python proficiency, and familiarity with LLMs, with onsite work in Burlingame, CA or Redmond, WA, for a 6-month engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Linguistics or related field required.
• Experience with regular expression encoding.
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, spreadsheets).
• Experience working with speech and text data.
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs) and prompt engineering.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise while delivering data for large language models.
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, and annotation efforts.
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions.
• Assess model performance and data quality.
• Prompt engineering.
• Create guidelines to enable annotators to consistently label language data at quality.
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses.

Skills

Python

SQL

Regular expressions

LLMs prompt engineering

Data analysis

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Linguistics or related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

NLP libraries

ML frameworks

Job description

Linguist III

Onsite is Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA

6 Months

Summary

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 strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, rule-based classifier encoding, and quality evaluations.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise while delivering data for large language models
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection,
• data curation, and annotation efforts
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions
• Assess model performance and data quality
• Prompt engineering
• Create guidelines in support of labeling projects that enable annotators to consistently label language data at quality
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in general Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related field
• Experience with regular expression encoding
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets)
• Experience working with speech and text data
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
• 2-3 Years of experience working in a Linguist role, Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs

Years of Experience

4-5+ Years

Must-Have Skills

• 1. Proficiency/Familiarity in Python and Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets)
• 2. Experience with regular expression encoding
• 3. Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications

Nice-to-Have Skills

• 1. Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
• 2. 2-3 Years of experience working in a Linguist role
• 3. Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs

Degrees/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in general Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related field required, Master/PhDs would be preferred not required

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise while delivering data for large language models
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, and annotation efforts
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions
• Assess model performance and data quality
• Prompt engineering
• Create guidelines in support of labeling projects that enable annotators to consistently label language data at quality
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses