Indian Linguist III

SGS_JOB_3668

Engineering
Remote
Hindi
Tamil
Malayalam
Marathi
Bengali
Punjabi
Nepali
Kannada
Telugu
Python
Data Analysis
RegEx
Linguistics

Contract - 9 Months

Required YOE: 0-3 Years Must have a graduate degree in Linguistics Must be native speaker of a non-English language (preferably Hindi) with a high level of proficiency in another Indo-Aryan or South Dravidian language, plus broad knowledge of other languages in either of those two groups.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Perform linguistic analyses on large datasets.
  • Perform linguistic error analysis of 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 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.

Skills:

  • Must have strong written and spoken communication skills, especially business and research communication.
  • Must be native speaker of a non-English language (preferably Hindi) with a high level of proficiency in another Indo-Aryan or South Dravidian language, plus broad knowledge of other languages in either of those two groups.
  • Working knowledge in other languages is a plus. Proficiency in a low-resource language is valued.
  • Must be able to code in Python (must) and query databases using SQL, other coding languages used for data analysis are a plus.
  • Must be able to independently work through complex requests and perform under pressure.
  • Strong ability to work independently, prioritize, plan, and track work, as well as report progress
  • Education or training in the basics of project management is a plus
  • Self-motivation is a must
  • Working knowledge of international language-classification standards is valued.
  • Experience working cross-functionally
  • Experience collaborating with machine learning, NLP, or software engineers, or data scientists
  • Experience contributing to research papers
  • Important: Preferably no known conflicts of interest in the fields of machine translation, ASR, TTS, or LLM research (as the candidates need to be contributing to research papers)

Education/Experience:

  • Graduate degree in Linguistics or related field is a must; PhD is a plus a background or specialization in corpus linguistics is a plus experience with field work is a plus
  • A graduate degree in Literature or English is not an appropriate substitution
  • Degree in Computer Science with a specialization in NLP is not an appropriate substitution
  • Must have a very firm grasp of the following linguistic fields: language typology, syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics (especially dialectology and discourse analysis), corpus linguistics, writing systems, pragmatics, phonology.
  • Must have some experience with applying basic Natural Language Processing techniques.

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