Linguist II (Onsite)

Job Title: Linguist II (Onsite)

Location: Syracuse, New York, United States 13210

Type: Long term contract/Fulltime with Iron system

 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 strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, data synthesis and data annotation tasks, and ML model improvements. Experience with Prompt Engineering is essential.

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, and annotation efforts

• Enhance model performance through Prompt Engineering

• Create annotation systems and guidelines

• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models

• 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 Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field

• 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

• Familiar with Prompt Engineering

• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment

• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Preferred (additional) Qualifications

• PhD in Linguistics, 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)

• Proficiency in Python

• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools

Candidate Requirements

Must-Have Skills

1

Linguistics (especially syntax, semantics and pragmatics)

2

Prompt Engineering

3

Natural Language Processing/ Computational Linguistics (experience with tech)

Nice-to-have Skills

1

python

2

SQL

3

Tech company linguistics

Thanks & Regards 

Waqar Ateeq

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Service Global Inc. – A Division of Iron Systems 

Iron Systems, Inc

980 Mission Ct., Fremont, CA 94539, USA

Phone no: +1 408-703-4610

Mail: waqara@serviceglobal.com