Italian Linguist II - Pinnacle

On-site in Redmond, Washington OR Sunnyvale, CA

Job Description:

• Linguist II - Italian
• Client is looking for a Linguist to help us develop language components for a variety of voice-enabled technologies and products.
• Client is seeking candidates with native or near-native fluency in French 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.
• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
• Build datasets, run and modify data pipelines, and train, analyze, evaluate machine learning models.
• Build rules in rule-based systems, and improve data quality/coverage with scripts when needed to improve ML models.
• Clearly communicate with project stakeholders.
• Identify best practices and improve procedures across data systems.
• Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams, conversation designers, researchers, engineers, and product managers to improve a digital assistant.
• Share work and give feedback to teammates.
• 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 related field
• Native or near-native fluency in French and/or Italian
• Awareness of Italian and/or French linguistic, cultural, 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)
• intermediate or above skills in Python
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools.

Summary:

• The main function of a Linguist is to determine Assistant data needs and setting strategic vision for data based model and product improvements.

Skills:

• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
• Experience of analyzing language data, solving language issues.
• Intermediate Python, SQL skills and solid Regex knowledge.
• Self-motivated and stay on top of owned areas proactively.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Team player and comfortable with fast-paced work flow.
• Take responsibility for task completion and schedule and be diligent to achieve the goals.
• Able to work in not-fully-defined projects/space and proactively debug and seek out solutions.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
• Native or advanced language skills in French or Italian is a must.
• Native Spanish with advanced French or Italian can be considered.
• Intermediate/advanced language skills on Spanish, India languages, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, German is a plus.

Pay Range: $40/hr

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.

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