Multilingual AI Linguist & NLP Insights Lead

Tundra Technical Solutions; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion in Redmond, WA seeks a Linguist III to provide linguistic expertise for AI-powered applications. You will perform analyses on large multilingual datasets and assess AI outputs with a view toward improving reliability.

You will write and revise guidelines for annotation and translation tasks, conduct typological and sociolinguistic research, review NLP-adjacent topics, and collaborate with native speakers to communicate results to engineers and scientists.

Qualifications

• Perform linguistic analyses on large datasets.
• Perform linguistic error analysis of AI model outputs and identify error categories.
• Write and revise guidelines for annotation and translation tasks.

Responsibilities

• Perform linguistic analyses on large datasets.
• Perform linguistic error analysis of Artificial Intelligence [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 Natural Language Processing [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.

Job description

Ascendion in Redmond, WA seeks a Linguist III to provide linguistic expertise for AI-powered applications. You will perform analyses on large multilingual datasets and assess AI outputs with a view toward improving reliability.

You will write and revise guidelines for annotation and translation tasks, conduct typological and sociolinguistic research, review NLP-adjacent topics, and collaborate with native speakers to communicate results to engineers and scientists.