REMOTE Linguist Role with Fortune 100 Company at Tailored Management

Job Title:Linguist II
Location:Remote West Coast Preferred
Contract:6 Months with possibility of extension
Pay Rate:$ 50-$53.00/hr, W2
Benefits:Medical, Dental, Vision and Weekly Pay

Summary
We are seeking a skilled Linguist to support the development of language components for voice-enabled technologies and products. This role involves linguistic data analysis, LLM-powered data synthesis, data annotation, prompt engineering, localization, and quality evaluations. The ideal candidate brings deep linguistic expertise, experience with multilingual data, and a strong understanding of modern language technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise across syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and related domains

• Collaborate with linguists and data operations teams on data collection, curation, translation, localization, and annotation

• Evaluate, curate, and prepare datasets for ML models using LLM-driven solutions

• Assess model output and data quality

• Develop and refine prompts for LLM workflows

• Create consistent and complex linguistic analyses in collaboration with cross-functional teams

Required Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics

• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages

• Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and related applications

• Hands-on experience with database queries and data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix)

• Python experience

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic environment

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Must Have Skills:

Linguistics - English is key but any additional languages would help as well
and some programming skills - Python preferred - must be comfortable and experienced conducting programming

SQL or R

Technical profile - Expectation to do some work stream management- working with vendors, coordinating tasks, keeping a tracker, - good team player and communicator.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python

• Experience with version control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)

• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks, NLP libraries, and related tools

Education:

• Masters degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or a related discipline

• PhD in Linguistics, Romance Languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field