Swahili Language Specialist

Agency; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Agency is seeking a linguist to contribute to high-quality training data for large-scale Swahili language models. You will analyze language phenomena, document errors, and help improve evaluation metrics.

The role requires deep Swahili expertise, documentation of noun classes and verb conjugation, and clear communication. You will collaborate with a distributed team to democratize education for Swahili speakers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Swahili grammar, syntax, morphology, semantics, phonetics, and pragmatics.
• Ability to document linguistic nuances including noun classes and verb conjugation.
• Clear, metacognitive communication skills.
• Ability to provide a secure computer and high-speed internet

Responsibilities

• Converse with language models on various language scenarios
• Verify factual accuracy and logical soundness of model outputs
• Capture reproducible error traces and document failure modes
• Suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics
• Challenge models on grammar, syntax, morphology, semantics, phonetics, and pragmatics

Skills

Swahili grammar

Swahili syntax

Swahili morphology

Swahili semantics

Swahili phonetics

Swahili pragmatics

Noun classes

Verb conjugation

Metacognitive communication

Education

Master's or PhD in Swahili language, linguistics, or closely related field

Peer-reviewed publications in linguistics

Job description

Responsibilities

• Converse with language models on various language scenarios
• Verify factual accuracy and logical soundness of model outputs
• Capture reproducible error traces and document failure modes
• Suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics
• Challenge models on grammar, syntax, morphology, semantics, phonetics, and pragmatics

Requirements

• Expertise in Swahili grammar, syntax, morphology, semantics, phonetics, and pragmatics
• Ability to document linguistic nuances including noun classes and verb conjugation
• Clear, metacognitive communication skills
• Ability to provide a secure computer and high-speed internet

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Swahili language, linguistics, or a closely related field
• Peer-reviewed publications in linguistics
• Translation experience
• Hands-on linguistic analysis projects

About the Company

This project focuses on providing high-quality training data to evolve large-scale language models, helping to democratize education and streamline communication for Swahili speakers worldwide.