Linguist

sgs-job-4078

Engineering
Remote
Linguist
AI
LLM
NLP
Phonetics
Phonology
Linguistics
Large Datasets
Python
SQL

Contract - 09 Months

NA

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 translation projects.
  • Conduct sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and pragmatics 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 linguistic work 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 near-native proficient in a language other than English, preferably Vietnamese, Dutch, Portuguese, or Thai.
  • Must have solid theoretical and practical foundations in the dynamics of conversations (turn taking, repairs, interruptions, argumentation, persuasion, compromising, etc.)
  • 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 (e.g., R) 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 with creating and/or maintaining specialized lexical resources (e.g., profanity dictionaries) a plus
  • Perform linguistic error analysis of machine translations and identifying the most frequent and severe error categories
  • Strong skills in pattern recognition, cross-functional communication, and multitasking
  • Actual Python coding skills

Education/Experience:

  • Years of experience: 0-3
  • Experience working cross-functionally
  • Experience collaborating with machine learning, NLP, or software engineers, or data scientists
  • Experience contributing to research papers
  • 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
  • A 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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