Remote Computational Linguist & Annotation Specialist

Odixcity Consulting; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Odixcity Consulting is seeking a highly motivated Computational Linguist Annotator to design and implement annotation frameworks for advanced AI language systems. You will collaborate with ML engineers and data teams to ensure high-quality linguistic datasets.

The role requires a strong background in linguistics and NLP, plus proven project experience in building annotation tools, guidelines, and scalable workflows. This is a remote, full-time position with global collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, English or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design linguistic annotation schemas for NLP tasks including semantic roles, discourse parsing and coreference resolution.
• Develop annotation guidelines balancing linguistic precision with annotator usability and scalability.
• Collaborate with product teams to translate business requirements into annotation frameworks.
• Ensure schemas capture relevant linguistic phenomena while remaining computationally tractable.
• Build and maintain annotation interfaces, QA dashboards and data management tools.
• Develop scripts and utilities for data preprocessing, validation and analysis.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, English or a relating field

Job description

Odixcity Consulting is seeking a highly motivated Computational Linguist Annotator to design and implement annotation frameworks for advanced AI language systems. You will collaborate with ML engineers and data teams to ensure high-quality linguistic datasets.

The role requires a strong background in linguistics and NLP, plus proven project experience in building annotation tools, guidelines, and scalable workflows. This is a remote, full-time position with global collaboration.