Linguist III

Crystal Equation Corporation; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 59,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401K

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Crystal Equation Corporation is seeking a Linguist III onsite to support language components for voice-enabled technologies. You will handle linguistic data analysis, data collection, labeling, and prompt engineering for ML models, collaborating with data ops and linguists to ensure high data quality and robust linguistic analyses.

The role requires strong Python skills, knowledge of linguistics, and experience with data annotation and LLM applications in a fast-paced team setting.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Linguistic data analysis

Python

Regular expression encoding

LLMs / Prompt engineering

Data collection / annotation

SQL

Speech and text data

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Linguistics or related field

Masters or PhD preferred

Tools

SQL databases

Spreadsheets

NLP libraries

Job description

Linguist III Onsite 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.

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

• Bachelors 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

• Masters or PhD in Linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
• 4-5 + Years of experience working in a Linguist role
• Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs

Pay range is $43 - $48 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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