Duration: 6 MonthsAbout the Role:The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data based model and product improvements. This position adds dedicated ASR/TTS evaluation capacity, reporting to the hiring manager with day-to-day direction from the linguistics lead.
Job Responsibilities:- Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and 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, 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 POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.
Must-Have Skills:- Foundational linguistics background — a BA/MA/PhD in linguistics, with applied linguistics knowledge (phonetics, phonology, familiarity with spoken vs. written forms). A linguistics background is required; a purely data science or engineering background is not a substitute.
- Technical skills — SQL and Python.
- Technical writing — able to produce clear guidelines, documentation, and analysis write-ups.
- Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
- Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
- Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.
Nice-to-Have Skills:- Computational linguistics / ASR experience — quality evaluation using WER/CER/SER, dataset creation and quality assessment (both commissioned and synthetic), ideally some understanding of contextual biasing.
- Human grading operations — hands-on grading of data, writing guidelines, and training annotators.
- Experience with both offline/synthetic data and live traffic quality evaluation for voice assistants.
Education / Experience:- Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
- Degree in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics preferred; not primarily data science or SWE.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience.
Interview Process: 2 Rounds [1 Soft Skills + 1 Technical (SQL/Python)]
About US Tech Solutions: US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit .
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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