Linguist II

Linguist II
Redmond WA, Burlingame CA
12 months contract

Summary:
The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech 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.
* Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.
* Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.
* Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
* Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
* Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.

Skills:
* Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
* Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
* Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
* Native or near-native speaker of at least 2 languages.
* Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
* Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.

Education/Experience:
* Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

Must-Have Skills
1 Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics. Transcription Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.
2 Native or near-native speaker of at least 2 languages. 1 has to be English. Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
3 Data Engineering. Data - Query Technical skills, Python and SQL, Working with LLM's. Technical Skills