Job Description
Linguist II - German
Burlingame, CA/Redmond, WA (Onsite)
9 Months Contract
Pay rate: $57.62/hr on W2
Summary:
The main function of a Linguist is to determine Assistant data needs and setting strategic vision for data-based model and product improvements.
Job Responsibilities:
•Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
•Create guidelines for crowdsourcing data collection, annotation, and evaluation
•Build datasets, run and modify data pipelines, and train, analyze, evaluate machine learning models.
•Identify best practices and improve procedures across data systems.
•Develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses
•Clearly communicate with project stakeholders.
•Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams, conversation designers, researchers, engineers, and product managers to improve a digital assistant.
•Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, translation, localization and annotation efforts
Skills:
•Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
•Experience with data crowdsourcing processes
•Experience writing 3P vendor-facing guidelines
•Experience of analyzing language data, solving language issues.
•Intermediate Python, SQL skills and solid Regex knowledge.
•Self-motivated and stay on top of owned areas proactively.
•Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
•Team player and comfortable with fast-paced work flow.
•Take responsibility for task completion and schedule and be diligent to achieve the goals.
•Able to work in not-fully-defined projects/space and proactively debug and seek out solutions.
Education/Experience:
•Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
•Native or advanced language skills in German is a must.
•Intermediate/advanced language skills on Italian, India languages, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese is a plus. Tailored Management
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