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Linguist II

Iron Systems, Inc • Full-time • Burlingame, CA, US • 3d ago

Iron Systems is an innovative, customer-focused provider of custom-built computing infrastructure platforms such as network servers, storage, OEM/ODM appliances & embedded systems. For more than 15 years, customer have trusted us for our innovative problem solving combined with holistic design, engineering, manufacturing, logistic and global support services.

Job Title: Linguist II

Location: US - CA - Burlingame

Job Description: Summary

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 Hindi with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection,
LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, localization and quality evaluations.

Job Responsibilities

Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics
Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, translation, localization and annotation efforts
Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions
Assess model and data quality
Prompt engineering
Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

Required Qualifications

Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field
Native or near-native fluency in Hindi
Awareness of Indian languages and their linguistic, cultural, local nuances
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), prompt engineering and their applications
Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)

Preferred (additional) Qualifications

PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
Proficiency in Python
Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools