Director - Technical Recruitment at Intelliswift Software, Inc.
Job Title: Linguist
Location: Remote
Duration: 9 months contract (Possible extensions)
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 fluency in Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese , 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.
2-3 years of experience
Must-Have Skills
- Master's degree or bachelor's degree with 3 years of experience in industry
- Data linguistic, RegEx, SQL, data analytics, data visualization
Nice-to-have Skills
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
- 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 Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese, and at least another language
- Awareness of different Portuguese varieties 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
- Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
Preferred 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