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Spectraforce Technologies lists this Linguist III opportunity in burlingame, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Linguist III
Onsite is Redmond, WA or Burlingame, CA
12 Months
Summary
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 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 ML 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
Required 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
Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work
environment
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
2-3 Years of experience working in a Linguist role, Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs
Years of Experience 4-5+ Years
Must-Have Skills
1. Proficiency/Familiarity in Python and Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets)
2. Experience with regular expression encoding
3. Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications
Nice-to-Have Skills
1. Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
2. 2-3 Years of experience working in a Linguist role
3. Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs
Degrees/Certifications Bachelor's degree in general Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related field required, Master/PhDs would be preferred not required
Day-to-Day 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 ML 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
Who can apply
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