Linguist III - LLM Data & Prompt Engineer

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

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.