Linguist III: Data & NLP for Language Models

PTR Global; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 62,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401K contributions

PTO & Sick Leave

Job summary

Ideal candidates have strong linguistics theory, data-analysis skills, Python proficiency, and experience with LLMs. This onsite role located in Burlingame, with multiple U.S. city options, offers a dynamic, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in General Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or a 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 (e.g., SQL, spreadsheets).
• Experience working with speech and text data.
• Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and their applications.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Linguistics

Python

SQL

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Regex encoding

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics/Computational Linguistics

Master’s or PhD (preferred)

Tools

SQL

Spreadsheets

Job description

Ideal candidates have strong linguistics theory, data-analysis skills, Python proficiency, and experience with LLMs. This onsite role located in Burlingame, with multiple U.S. city options, offers a dynamic, collaborative environment.