Linguist II
Duration: 9 months 
Location: Remote

Summary

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 fluency in Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese, with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, localization and quality evaluations.

Must Haves:
Proficient in Portuguese language
Masters degree or bachelors degree with 3 years of experience in industry
data linguistic, RegEx, SQL, data analytics, data visualization

Preferred (additional) Qualifications
? PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational
linguistics, speech science, or related field
? Proficiency in Python
? Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools

Years of Experience:
? 2-3 years of experience
? If they have masters degree and good academic background then no experience is fine
? If someone has bachelor's degree then we need at least 2 years of experience

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
? Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions
? Assess model and data quality
? Prompt engineering
? 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 Brazilian Portuguese and/or European Portuguese, and at least another language
? Awareness of different Portuguese varieties and their linguistic, cultural, local nuances
? 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), prompt engineering and their applications
? Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)
? Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
? Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
? Excellent communication skills both verbal and written 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 40.00/hr.