Senior Linguist

Senior Linguist

The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data based model and product improvements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and Natural Language Processing (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, Part-of-Speech (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 Part-of-Speech (POS) tagger performance and remedy pain points.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
• Minimum 3+ years in Phonetics, Phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• Native or near-native speaker of at least 2 languages including English as one of the languages.
• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems.
• Working knowledge with Python, SQL and Large Language Models (LLM's).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
• Prior FAANG/Big Tech

Location:

Onsite in one of these offices [Burlingame, CA or Redmond, WA]

Salary Range:
The salary for this position is between $68,640 – $128,160 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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