Job Description

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 or near-native fluency in French, Spanish, and/or Italian with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, data synthesis and data annotation tasks, translation-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, translation, localization, and annotation efforts.
• 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 Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or a related field.
• Native or near-native fluency in French, Spanish, and/or Italian.
• Awareness of French, Spanish, and/or Italian linguistic, cultural, and local norms.
• 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.
• 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 or Romance languages, 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.

Benefits:

• 401(k).
• Dental Insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity, equality, inclusion, and respect for people.
• The salary will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participate in OrangePeople monthly team meetings, and participate in team-building efforts.
• Contribute to OrangePeople technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
• Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
• Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.

About us:
OrangePeople is an Enterprise Architecture and Project Management solutions company. Our most valuable asset is our people: dynamic, creative thinkers, who are passionate about doing quality work. As a member of the OrangePeople team, you will have access to industry-leading consulting practices, strategies & and technologies, innovative training & and education. An ideal Orange Person is a technology leader with a proven track record of technical achievements and a strong process/methodology orientation.

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• Dice Id: 10216708
• Position Id: 2024-5260

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