Date Posted:
2/28/2024
Job Function:
Research
Location:
Redmond WA - USA
Offered Salary:
Competitive
Iron Systems is an innovative, customer-focused provider of custom-built computing infrastructure platforms such as network servers, storage, OEM/ODM appliances & embedded systems. For more than 15 years, customer have trusted us for our innovative problem solving combined with holistic design, engineering, manufacturing, logistic and global support services.
Job Title: Linguist II
Location: US - WA - Redmond
Job Description: Summary:
Job Title: Linguist II
Location: US - WA - Redmond
Job Description: Summary:
- The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data based model and product improvements.
- Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
- Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.
- Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.
- Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
- Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
- Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.
- Run speech recognition models and evaluate output quality.
- Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
- Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and organize people across teams • Comfortable with basic coding practices for data analysis using SQL, Python, etc.
- Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.