Linguist - Remote

Location:
San Francisco, California
- Remote:
Remote
- Type:
Contract

Job #1242

The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech 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.
- Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription 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.
- Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
- Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
- Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.
- Run speech recognition models and evaluate output quality.

Skills:

- Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
- Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and organize people across teams
- Comfortable with basic coding practices for data analysis using SQL, Python, etc.

Education/Experience:

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