Qualifications:
We are looking for a Linguist to help us develop language components for a variety of voice-enabled technologies and products. We are seeking candidates with native or near-native fluency in French and/or Italian with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, data synthesis and data annotation tasks, translation-localization and ML model improvements.
Job Responsibilities
The main function of a Linguist is to determine Assistant data needs and setting strategic vision for data-based model and product improvements.
• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Build datasets, run and modify data pipelines, and train, analyse, 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 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. Native Spanish with advanced French or Italian can be considered.
• Intermediate/advanced language skills on Spanish, India languages, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, German is a plus.
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $45.00 - $50.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Schedule:
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
Location: Burlingame, CA
Posted: Oct. 4, 2024, 8:53 p.m.
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