Linguist II (Mandarin speaking)
hace 7 días
New York
Job Description Linguist II : 65286-1 Location: Onsite - New York OR Burlingame OR seattle Duration: 9 months contract - May be extensions Details: 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 Mandarin (Simplified Chinese) 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. Job 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, • Prompt engineering, • 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 Mandarin (Simplified Chinese), and at least another language, • Awareness of Indian languages 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 • Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment, • Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others), • Strong organizational skills and detail oriented, • Excellent communication skills both verbal and written Preferred (additional) Qualifications • PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field, • Proficient in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, • Proficiency in Python, • Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools Must-Have Skills: ● Proficient in Mandarin language ● Masters degree is good - bachelors degree with experience ● Data linguistic, RegEx, SQL Nice-to-have Skills: ● Python language Years of Experience: ● 2-3 years of experience ● If they have masters degree and good academic background then no experience is fine ● If someone has bachelor's degree then we need at least 2 years of experience