Linguist III

About the role

Linguist III position located in Burlingame, CA; Redmond, WA; or New York, NY (onsite). This is a 12+ month contract role with a pay rate of $45–$50/hour on W2.

Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise while delivering data for large language models.
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, curation, and annotation efforts.
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions.
• Assess model performance and data quality.
• Perform prompt engineering tasks.
• Create guidelines to support labeling projects, ensuring annotators consistently label language data with quality.
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in General Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• Experience with regular expression encoding.
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (e.g., SQL, spreadsheets).
• Experience working with speech and text data.
• Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and their applications.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and dynamic work environment.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in Linguistics, Language Technologies, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP libraries, and tools.
• 4‑5+ years of experience working in a Linguist role.
• Experience with conversational assistants, ML support, and LLMs.

Pay

$45–$50/hour on W2.