Linguist III

Position: Linguist III
Location: 100% remote
Duration: 04+ months Contract
Pay rate: $50-$55/hour on W2
Job ID: 178750

Job Overview:
Must have near-native or native bilingual proficiency in a language other than English, more specifically a language of the following families or groups: Dravidian or Indo-Aryan.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Linguist III to join our team. This role involves performing advanced linguistic analyses, contributing to AI and NLP projects, and collaborating with engineers and researchers to enhance language processing technologies. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in linguistics, proficiency in specific language families, and experience in applying linguistic knowledge to AI and NLP tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Perform linguistic analyses on large datasets.
• Conduct linguistic error analysis of AI model outputs to identify frequent and severe error categories.
• Write and revise guidelines for human annotation and other AI projects, including translation tasks.
• Conduct typological and sociolinguistic research on a wide range of languages, highlighting similarities and differences.
• Perform linguistic analyses for Responsible AI, focusing on toxic language, hate speech, gender bias, and other cultural biases in multilingual settings.
• Conduct linguistic literature reviews on NLP-adjacent topics and summarize findings.
• Compare vendor deliveries, identify error patterns, and provide actionable feedback.
• Provide guidance on linguistic knowledge, including typology, morpho-syntax, sociolinguistics, classification, phonetics/phonology, and pragmatics.
• Collaborate with native speakers of various languages.
• Communicate results of linguistic analyses to engineers and research scientists.

Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in Linguistics is required; a PhD is a plus.
• Must have near-native or native bilingual proficiency in a language of the Dravidian or Indo-Aryan families.
• Working knowledge of additional languages is a plus; proficiency in low-resource languages is valued.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills, especially in business and research contexts.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL; additional data analysis coding languages are a plus.
• Experience working cross-functionally and collaborating with machine learning, NLP, or software engineers, or data scientists.
• Experience contributing to research papers.
• Education or training in project management is a plus.
• Self-motivation and the ability to work independently under pressure.
• Firm grasp of linguistic fields such as language typology, syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, writing systems, pragmatics, and phonology.
• Experience with applying basic Natural Language Processing techniques.
• Preferably no known conflicts of interest in machine translation, ASR, TTS, or LLM research.

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Pay Range: $50 - $55/hour on W2

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