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Senior Linguist
Job in
Redmond, King County, Washington, 98052, USA
Listed on 2026-07-20
Listing for:
Ascendion
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-20
Job specializations:
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Business
Data Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Ascendion is an AI‑native software engineering disruptor helping businesses innovate faster, smarter, and with greater impact.
About the roleThe main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and set a strategic vision for data‑based model and product improvements.
Job TitleSenior Linguist
Key Responsibilities- Provide linguistic expertise in phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and natural language processing.
- Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.
- Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects, ensuring high‑quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.
- Create and refine 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.
- Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
- Native or near‑native speaker of at least two languages, including English.
- Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
- Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
- Knowledge of transcription and annotation systems.
- Working knowledge of Python, SQL, and large‑language models.
- Master’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
Onsite in one of the following offices:
Burlingame, CA or Redmond, WA.
$68,640 – $128,160 annually. Pay may vary based on geography, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.
Benefits- 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 (paid sick and safe time laws are complied with)
- 10–15 days of paid vacation time
- 6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year
- Access to the Ascendion Learning Management System
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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