Linguist II

Immediate need for a talented Linguist II. This is a 09+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Burlingame, CA /Seattle, WA (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:24-43291

Pay Range: $40 - $43/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics.
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, translation, localization and annotation efforts.
• Create annotation systems and guidelines.
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models.
• Assess model and data quality.
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Skills-SQL and Python, Coding in Java, Mexican Spanish fluency.
• Linguist II - Mexico Spanish, not other Spanish.
• Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field.
• Native or near-native fluency in Mexican Spanish.
• Awareness of Mexican Spanish, cultural, local norms.
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics.
• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages.
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs) and their applications.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment.
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others).
• Intermediate or above skills in Python.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools.

Our client is a leading IT Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
 
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