Linguist II - Brazilian Portuguese Job at SPECTRAFORCE, Washington DC

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  • SPECTRAFORCE
  • Washington DC

Job Description

Title: Linguist II

Location: Multiple Locations (Burlingame CA, Redmond WA , NYC)

Duration: 9 months

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 Brazilian Portuguese 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 l inguistic 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 Brazilian Portuguese

• Awareness of Brazilian Portuguese 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

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

Must-Have Skills

1 SQL and Python

2 Language skills: Brazilian Portuguese

3 Increasing. / Speeding things by this much

Resume should be more quantitative

Nice-to-have Skills

1 O ther language skills like Italian, India languages, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese

Job Tags

Local area,

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