Computational Linguist (Brazilian Portuguese) Job at Intelliswift - An LTTS Company, Sunnyvale, CA

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  • Intelliswift - An LTTS Company
  • Sunnyvale, CA

Job Description

Role: Linguist II - Brazilian Portuguese

Location: Onsite - New York, NY

Job Term: 09 months contract with possibility of extension (only W2)

Our client is seeking a Linguist to help develop language components for various 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.

Must-Have Skills

SQL and Python

Language skills: Brazilian Portugues

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 linguistic analyses

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or a 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

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

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

Job Tags

Contract work, Local area,

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