Computational Linguist

Tailored Management
US - California - Los Angeles
November 13, 2024
Electronics

Job Title: Linguist II German

Location: Burlingame / Redmond

Duration: 9 Months with Possibility of Extension.

Pay Rate: $75-$80/hr on w2

An excellent opportunity to join a global leader in the tech industry that builds technologies to help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.

Tailored Management is seeking a Linguist II German to work onsite at our client's Burlingame / Redmond campus on a 9 Month contract basis.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a global leader in the tech industry that builds technologies to help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.

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 native or near-native fluency in German with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, data synthesis and data annotation tasks, translation-localization and ML model improvements.

Job Responsibilities:

Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.

Build datasets, run and modify data pipelines, and train, analyze, evaluate machine learning models.

Build rules in rule-based systems and improve data quality/coverage with scripts when needed to improve ML models.

Clearly communicate with project stakeholders.

Identify best practices and improve procedures across data systems.

Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams, conversation designers, researchers, engineers, and product managers to improve a digital assistant.

Skills:

Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.

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.

Education/Experience:

Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

Master's degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field REQUIRED.

Native or advanced language skills in German is a must.

Awareness of German linguistic, cultural, local norms

Intermediate/advanced language skills on Italian, India languages, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese is a plus.

Required Qualifications:

Experience with language annotation or other forms of data markup and tagging.

Experience in building semantic ontologies and semantic relation frameworks.

Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics

Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages

Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs) and their applications

Preferred (additional) Qualifications:

PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field

Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)

intermediate or above skills in Python

Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools.

#TMFB

Read the full job description and apply online on the recuiter's web-site

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