Linguist III
Location: Redmond, WA
12 months
Role Overview
We are seeking a Linguist III to develop language components for voice-enabled technologies and products. The role focuses on linguistic data analysis, language technologies, LLM-powered data synthesis, annotation, prompt engineering, rule-based classifier development, and quality evaluation.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide linguistic expertise to support data development for Large Language Models (LLMs) .
- Collaborate with linguists and data operations teams on data collection, curation, and annotation .
- Evaluate and curate datasets for ML models using LLM-based solutions.
- Assess model performance and data quality .
- Perform prompt engineering and support LLM applications.
- Develop guidelines to ensure consistent, high-quality language-data labeling.
- Create and maintain complex, consistent linguistic analyses.
- Work with speech and text data in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related field .
- 4–5+ years of relevant experience.
- Proficiency/familiarity with Python .
- Experience with SQL/database queries, spreadsheets, and data analysis .
- Experience with regular expression (regex) encoding .
- Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics , and related areas.
- Experience working with speech and text data .
- Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, and their applications .
- Strong organizational, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Master’s or PhD in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Technologies, or related field.
- Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP libraries, and tools .
- 2–3 years of experience specifically in a Linguist role .
- Experience with conversational assistants, ML support, and LLM projects .
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