Linguist III

Crystal Equation Corporation; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision/life insurance

401K

Parental leave

Job summary

Crystal Equation Corporation is seeking a linguist to perform large-scale linguistic analyses, error analysis of AI outputs, and to write guidelines for annotation and translation tasks. You will conduct typological and sociolinguistic research across many languages and contribute to Responsible AI assessments in multilingual settings.

You will collaborate with engineers and researchers, reach out to native speakers, and help produce research papers while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced,

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Linguistics or related field is required; PhD is a plus.
• Near-native bilingual proficiency in a language outside English (Dravidian or Indo-Aryan).
• Experience collaborating with ML, NLP, or data science teams is preferred.
• Ability to work independently and under pressure.
• Experience contributing to research papers is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Perform linguistic analyses on large datasets.
• Perform linguistic error analysis of AI model outputs, determining common error categories.
• Write and revise guidelines for human annotation and translation tasks.
• Conduct typological and sociolinguistic research across languages.
• Assess Responsible AI issues like toxic language and biases in multilingual settings.
• Summarize NLP literature reviews and communicate findings.
• Compare vendor deliveries, identify errors, and provide actionable feedback.
• Provide guidance on linguistic knowledge to engineers and researchers.
• Collaborate with native speakers and share results with the team.

Skills

Linguistic analysis

NLP research

Cross-functional collaboration

Python

SQL

Academic writing

Research publication

Education

Graduate degree in Linguistics

PhD preferred

Corpus linguistics background

Tools

Python

SQL

NLP tooling

Job description

Location

Remote

Responsibilities

• Perform linguistic analyses on large datasets.
• Perform linguistic error analysis of AI model outputs, determining what the most frequent and severe error categories are.
• Write and revise guidelines for human annotation and other AI projects, including but not limited to translation tasks.
• Conduct typological and sociolinguistic research on a large number of languages, highlighting their similarities and differences.
• Perform linguistic analyses for Responsible AI (toxic language, hate speech, gender bias and other cultural biases) in massively multilingual settings.
• Conduct linguistic literature reviews on various NLP‑adjacent topics, and summarize findings.
• Compare the quality of deliveries between vendors, identify error patterns, and provide actionable feedback.
• Provide information or guidance relative to any aspect of linguistic knowledge (typology, morpho‑syntax, sociolinguistics, classification, phonetics/phonology, pragmatics, etc.).
• Reach out to and collaborate with native speakers in various languages.
• Communicate results of linguistic analyses to engineers and research scientists.

Requirements

• Must have strong written and spoken communication skills, especially business and research communication.
• Must have near‑native or native bilingual proficiency in a language other than English, more specifically a language of the following families or groups: Dravidian or Indo‑Aryan.
• Working knowledge in other languages is a plus.
• Proficiency in a low‑resource language is valued.
• Must be able to code in Python (must) and query databases using SQL, other coding languages used for data analysis are a plus.
• Must be able to independently work through complex requests and perform under pressure.
• Strong ability to work independently, prioritize, plan, and track work, as well as report progresseducation or training in the basics of project management is a plusself‑motivation is a must Working knowledge of international language‑classification standards is valued.
• Years of experience: 0‑3.
• Experience working cross‑functionally.
• Experience collaborating with machine learning, NLP, or software engineers, or data scientists.
• Experience contributing to research papers.
• Important: Preferably no known conflicts of interest in the fields of machine translation, ASR, TTS, or LLM research (Linguists need to be contributing to research papers).

Education

• Graduate degree in Linguistics or related field is a must; PhD is a plus.
• A background or specialization in corpus linguistics is a plus.
• Experience with field work is a plus.
• A graduate degree in Literature or English is not an appropriate substitution degree.
• Computer Science with a specialization in NLP is not an appropriate substitution.
• Must have a very firm grasp of the following linguistic fields: language typology, syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics (especially dialectology and discourse analysis), corpus linguistics, writing systems, pragmatics, phonology.
• Must have some experience with applying basic Natural Language Processing techniques.

Pay

• Pay range is $47- $52 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.

Promises

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• Your recruiter will prep you for the interview, obtain feedback, guide you through any necessary paperwork and provide everything you need for a successful start.
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