Linguist II

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 a fluency in Mexican Spanish and with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection data synthesis and data annotation tasks localization and ML model improvements.

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 localization and annotation efforts

• Create annotation systems and guidelines

• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models

• Use grammar-based methods and programmatic templates for generating annotated data

• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating model and data quality

• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

Basic Qualifications

• Masters degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages Computational Linguistics Speech Science or related field

• Two 2 or more years of experience in Linguistics Language Technologies or NLP

• Fluency in Mexican Spanish

• Knowledge of syntax semantics pragmatics sociolinguistics corpus linguistics and other areas of linguistics

• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes i.e. SQL spreadsheets R Unix or others

• Experience with language annotation or other forms of data markup and tagging

• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages language technologies computational linguistics speech science or related field

• Experience in building semantic ontologies and semantic relation frameworks

• Experience with statistical language modeling

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

• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented

Skills:

linguistics, Spanish, data analysis

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.