Linguist II

Contract: 12 Months+

• Required YOE: 2-4 Years

• Key performance measurements: Project completion and deliverables.
• Degrees or certifications: Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field REQUIRED.
• 2 interview rounds.

Job 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, localization, and annotation efforts.
• Create annotation systems and guidelines.
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models.
• Use grammar-based methods and programmatic templates for generating annotated data.
• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating model and data quality.
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field.
• Two (2) or more years of experience in Linguistics, Language Technologies, or NLP.
• Native fluency in Mexican Spanish.
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics.
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others).
• Experience with language annotation or other forms of data markup and tagging.
• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
• Experience in building semantic ontologies and semantic relation frameworks.
• Experience with statistical language modeling.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment.
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented.

Must-Have Hard Skills:

• Native fluency in Mexican Spanish.
• Experience with language annotation or other forms of data markup and tagging.
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience in building semantic ontologies and semantic relation frameworks.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment.
• Ph. D preferred.