Title: Linguist II (Must have fluency in Italian)
Type: US - CA - Burlingame
Secondary Location: Denver, CO, New York, NY , Houston, TX, Los Angeles, CA, and San Diego CA
Duration: Long term contract/Fulltime with Iron system
Job Description:
Summary:
The main function of a Linguist is to determine Assistant data needs and setting strategic vision for data based model and product improvements.
Job Responsibilities:
• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Build datasets, run and modify data pipelines, and train, analyze, evaluate machine learning models.
• Build rules in rule-based systems, and improve data quality/coverage with scripts when needed to improve ML models. .
• Clearly communicate with project stakeholders.
• Identify best practices and improve procedures across data systems.
• Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams, conversation designers, researchers, engineers, and product managers to improve a digital assistant.
• Share work and give feedback to teammates.
Skills:
• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
• Experience of analyzing language data, solving language issues.
• Intermediate or advanced Python, SQL skills and solid Regex knowledge.
• Self-motivated and stay on top of owned areas proactively.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Team player and comfortable with fast-paced work flow.
• Take responsibility for task completion and schedule and be diligent to achieve the goals.
• Able to work in not-fully-defined projects/space and proactively debug and seek out solutions.
Education/Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
• Native or advanced language skills in French or Italian is a must.
• Intermediate/advanced language skills on Spanish, India languages, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, German is a plus.
Thanks & Regards
Waqar Ateeq
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Service Global Inc. – A Division of Iron Systems
Iron Systems, Inc
980 Mission Ct., Fremont, CA 94539, USA
Phone no: +1 408-703-4610
Mail: waqara@serviceglobal.com
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posted: Aug. 23, 2024, 7:59 a.m.
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