Linguist III- #26-24191

Us Tech Solutions; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

US Tech Solutions is seeking a Linguist to develop language components for voice-enabled technologies.

You will provide linguistic expertise for data used by large language models and collaborate with linguists and data operations to collect, curate, and annotate data, ensuring high quality for model training and evaluation.

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.

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.
• Create guidelines in support of labeling projects that enable annotators to consistently label language data at quality.
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses.

Skills

Linguistic data analysis

Excellent communication

Detail oriented

Collaboration

Fast-paced environment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics or related field

Master’s or PhD in Linguistics or related field (preferred)

Tools

Python

SQL

Spreadsheets

Job description

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

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

4-5 Years of experience working in a Linguist role

Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.

About US Tech Solutions:

US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.

US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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