Job Description

Title: Linguist

Locations: Burlingame, CA or Redmond, WA

🔍 Position Summary

We are seeking a Linguist III to support the development of language components for next-generation voice-enabled technologies. This role involves linguistic data analysis, LLM-powered data synthesis, annotation, prompt engineering , and quality evaluation.

🧠 Key Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise for data powering large language models.
• Partner with linguistic + data operations teams on data collection, curation, and annotation.
• Evaluate and curate datasets for ML model training using LLM tools.
• Assess data quality and model performance.
• Perform prompt engineering tasks.
• Create annotation guidelines enabling high-quality, consistent labeling.
• Develop complex linguistic analyses collaboratively.
• Encode rule-based linguistic patterns (e.g., using regex ).

🎓 Required Qualifications

• Bachelors in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics , or related field.
• Experience with regular expressions .
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, etc.
• Proficiency in Python .
• Experience with SQL , spreadsheets, and data analysis.
• Experience working with speech + text data .
• Familiarity with LLMs and prompt engineering .
• Strong communication + organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or PhD in Linguistics or related field.
• Experience with ML frameworks, NLP tools, and libraries .
• 23 years prior experience as a Linguist.
• Experience in conversational AI, ML support, or LLM-related work.

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