Linguist

Director - Technical Recruitment at Intelliswift Software, Inc.

Job Title:

Linguist

Location:

Remote

Duration: 9 months contract (Possible extensions)

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 Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese
, with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, localization and quality evaluations.

2-3 years of experience

Must-Have Skills

• Master's degree or bachelor's degree with 3 years of experience in industry
• Data linguistic, Reg Ex, SQL, data analytics, data visualization

Nice-to-have Skills

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, translation, localization and annotation efforts
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions
• Assess model and data quality
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field
• Native or near-native fluency in Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese, and at least another language
• Awareness of different Portuguese varieties and their linguistic, cultural, local nuances
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, Reg Ex, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools