Data Annotator

Linguist III

Remote

Summary:

The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting the strategic vision for data-based model and product improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating language model 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.

Skills:

• Strong coding skills (Python and SQL).
• Data analysis and annotation skills.
• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, syntax, sociolinguistics and other areas of linguistics.
• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Familiarity with Large Language Models preferred.
• Familiarity with multimodal systems and/or computer vision preferred.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field is preferred