Linguistic Engineer

As a Linguistic Engineer, you will apply your knowledge of linguistics and natural language processing to determine language needs of diverse AI projects, setting the strategic vision for data-based model improvements, working with cross-functional partners to create consistent language products across dialects and languages. You will use your analytical experience, track record of crafting clear and concise, emails, reports & documents, collaborative skills, and personal drive to achieve team goals. Your experience of using in-depth subject-matter knowledge will enable us to build AI models that are robust, fair, safe, and scalable across form factors, modalities, and languages/markets.Linguistic Engineer Responsibilities

• Provide subject-matter knowledge in the areas of data collection/annotation/synthesis, quality measurements, model quality support, and other linguistic or AI areas.
• Identify best practices and improve procedures across teams to achieve outcomes in better/faster/cheaper ways
• Anticipate language- or data- based problems before they occur.
• Identify or design novel pathways to accelerated data production and QA.
• Lead initiatives that will inform and accelerate product roadmaps.
• Clearly communicate your feature/product-recommendations with program stakeholders.
• Establish best practices to measure fairness of models across different linguistic groups.
• Consult product development from the linguistic engineering POV with scalability across form factors, modalities, and languages in mind

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• 8+ years of work experience as data scientist, software engineer, computational linguist or in a similar role.
• Experience in various areas of linguistics, computational linguistics, AI / Large Language Models, data science, product development.
• Experience with programming techniques and with programming languages such as Python, SQL.
• Experience scoping, prioritizing and directing the work of other linguists.
• Experience designing and conducting language or multimodal data experiments.
• Experience with efficient data collection/labeling and evaluation projects.
• Track record working on or leading cross-functional efforts, initiatives, or projects, actively influencing products or product roadmaps
• Experience collaborating in large-scale, highly collaborative projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of the relationship between data and machine learning models in order to increase linguists’ impact on ML projects.
• Experience with larger scripting projects that involve combining language data from different sources, computing complex metrics over large datasets, etc.
• Familiarity with core data processing techniques and tooling (including version control, unit tests, and other programming best practices).
• Fluency or working proficiency in two or more spoken languages.
• Experience with responsible AI approaches, enabling and preserving privacy, safety, integrity, and fairness.

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US$155,000/year to US$215,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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