Linguist

Facebook • Contract • Burlingame, CA, US • 2w ago

MUST HAVE:

SQL
PHYTON
Have linguist work experience
Be fluent in German or Italian
Be based in the Bay Area, CA or Redmond, WA

Description:

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 French and/or Italian 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 syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistic
Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, translation, localization and annotation efforts
Create annotation systems and guidelines
Evaluate and curate data sets for ML mode
Assess model and data quality
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 French and/or Italian
Awareness of Italian and/or French linguistic, cultural, local norms
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
Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
Strong organizational skills and detail orien

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 Py
thonExperience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools

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