Location: on-site: Burlingame, CA or Redmond, WA

Temporary contract

Description

Who is Our Client?

From a technical point of view, we leverage the power of a global crowd to provide some of the world’s biggest companies with the high-quality data they need to power their artificial intelligence. We’re instrumental to the progression and development of artificial intelligence and we couldn’t be prouder or more inspired to be involved in an industry that is changing the world.

From a personal point of view, we’re a group of big thinkers, high achievers and creative problem solvers. We bond over our shared love of software engineering, data science, and strong coffee. We like online gaming, running marathons, and team drinks. We celebrate authenticity and diversity and we’re invested in what we do. Our mission? World domination, obviously!

About the role

We make machines smarter for Fortune 500 companies. Our focus is on improving Artificial Intelligence technologies through natural language processing – and we need linguists to train new models. We are looking for Senior Computational Linguists native in Italian or English UK/IE/AU to work on-site with one of our top-end clients.

Start & completion dates:

Start date is at the earliest and the initial contract is for a period of one month. Upon successful completion of the trial period, the contract will get extended until January 20, 2025, possibly longer.

Weekly scope:

40h per week.

General:

Linguists will help build out the NLU workflows and workstreams required by defining and delivering data annotation pipelines, annotation guidelines, golden datasets, training datasets, evaluation criteria, process improvements, upskilling programs, etc. You would be working on the following work streams:

language modeling
building test and evaluation training sets
evaluation and analysis of product features
rules engine, tweaking the engine for the model outputs
triage
multimodal features, chatbot experiences, packing the AI into glasses

Job description:

The role of the computational linguist is to help develop and improve our client’s NLP/NLU systems. Tasks may include but are not limited to:

Annotating and reviewing linguistic data – part of speech annotation, semantic annotation, phonetic transcription
Collect data and perform data analysis
Labeling text for disambiguation, and (inverse) text normalization
Evaluating current system outputs, detect incidental and systemic errors and provide solutions
Translation and localization tasks
Creating and evaluating training and test sets
Prompt engineering

Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

Native speaker of the target language and fluent in English
Experience in using, adapting and creating scripts in Python
Knowledge of relational databases and using, adapting and creating SQL queries
Experience in annotation work
Knowledge of semantics, syntax, morphology or lexicography
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Attention to detail and good organizational skills
Be able to work independently with confidence and little oversight

Desired Skills:

Degree in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics, or a degree computer science with a minor in linguistics
Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; learn in-house tools

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Senior Computational Linguist (native Italian or UK/IE/AU English)