Linguist III
Remote
9 months
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 fluency in Mexican Spanish and with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, data synthesis and data annotation tasks, localization and ML model improvements.
Top 3 Must-have HARD Skills
1 Native fluency in French/Italian
2 Experience with language annotation or other forms of data markup and tagging
3 Experience with programming and data analysis with languages and platforms such as Python and SQL with intermediate fluency.
Skills
Good to have skills:
1 Experience in building semantic ontologies, semantic relation frameworks, voice assistance or AI.
2 Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environmentJob
Responsibilities
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
9 months
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 fluency in Mexican Spanish and with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, data synthesis and data annotation tasks, localization and ML model improvements.
Top 3 Must-have HARD Skills
1 Native fluency in French/Italian
2 Experience with language annotation or other forms of data markup and tagging
3 Experience with programming and data analysis with languages and platforms such as Python and SQL with intermediate fluency.
Skills
Good to have skills:
1 Experience in building semantic ontologies, semantic relation frameworks, voice assistance or AI.
2 Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environmentJob
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
- 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
- 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
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
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