LLM Linguist III: Data, Prompts & Analysis

BCforward; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

BCforward is seeking a Linguist III to join our team in a contract role focused on linguistic data analysis, language technologies, and LLM-enabled workflows. You will deliver high-quality language data, encode rule-based classifiers, engineer prompts, and evaluate model and data quality.

The position supports onsite hybrid work in Burlingame, CA or Redmond, WA, with a 12-month duration and pay range of $40/hr to $45/hr (W2).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related field.
• Experience with regular expression encoding.
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience with SQL and data analysis processes.
• Experience working with speech and text data.
• Familiarity with Large Language Models, prompt engineering, and applications.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise while delivering data for large language models.
• Collaborate with linguists and data operations teams on data collection, curation, and annotation.
• Evaluate and curate datasets for ML models using LLM solutions.
• Assess model performance and data quality.
• Conduct prompt engineering for data synthesis and evaluation tasks.
• Create clear guidelines that enable consistent labeling by annotators.
• Develop complex linguistic analyses and encode rule-based classifiers.

Skills

Linguistics

Python

Regex

SQL

Data analysis

ML frameworks

Prompt engineering

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s in Linguistics

Master’s/PhD in related field

Tools

NLP libraries

ML frameworks

Job description

BCforward is seeking a Linguist III to join our team in a contract role focused on linguistic data analysis, language technologies, and LLM-enabled workflows. You will deliver high-quality language data, encode rule-based classifiers, engineer prompts, and evaluate model and data quality.

The position supports onsite hybrid work in Burlingame, CA or Redmond, WA, with a 12-month duration and pay range of $40/hr to $45/hr (W2).