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Linguist II
 Spectraforce Technologies | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 16, 2026 | |
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Linguist II Redmond WA, Burlingame CA 12 months contract Summary: The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data based model and product improvements. Job Responsibilities: * Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP. * Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality. * Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback. * Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes. * Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata. * Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points. Skills: * Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics. * Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms. * Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language. * Native or near-native speaker of at least 2 languages. * Excellent communication skills both verbal and written. * Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI. Education/Experience: * Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field. Must-Have Skills 1 Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics. Transcription Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI. 2 Native or near-native speaker of at least 2 languages. 1 has to be English. Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language. 3 Data Engineering. Data - Query Technical skills, Python and SQL, Working with LLM's. Technical Skills | |