Computational Linguist

Director - Technical Recruitment at Intelliswift Software, Inc.

Job Title:

Linguist III

Location:

Onsite – Redmond, WA

Duration: 6 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 strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, rule-based classifier encoding, and quality evaluations.

• Proficiency in Python and experience with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, spreadsheets)
• Experience with regular expression encoding
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications

• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP libraries and tools
• 2-3 Years of experience working in a Linguist role
• Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs

• Provide linguistic expertise while delivering data for large language models
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, and annotation efforts
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions
• Assess model performance and data quality through prompt engineering
• Create guidelines to support labeling projects that enable annotators to consistently label language data at high quality
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

• Bachelor’s degree in general Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related field
• Experience with regular expression encoding
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, spreadsheets)
• Experience working with speech and text data
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

• Master’s or PhD in Linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP libraries and tools
• 2-3 Years of experience working in a Linguist role
• Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs

Mid-Senior level

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