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About Ascendion
Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 11,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.
Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life
We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:
- Build the coolest tech for world s leading brands
- Solve complex problems and learn new skills
- Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
- Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience
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Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.
About The Role:
- 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.
Job Title: Linguist III
Key Responsibilities:
- 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 Machine Learning models using LLM solutions
- Assess model performance and data quality
- Prompt engineering
- Create guidelines in support of labeling projects that enable annotators to consistently label language data at quality
- Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses
Minimum Qualifications:
- 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 (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets)
- Experience working with speech and text data
- Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications
- Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master s or PhD in Linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field
- Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
- 2+ years of experience working in a linguist role
Location: Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA [Onsite]
Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $72,800 $131,114 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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