Linguistic-Remote CA

Job Description

Job Ttitle: Linguistic-Remote CA

Company: Tailored Management


Description: Job Title: Linguist II
Location: Remote-CA
Pay Rate: $54.81/W2
Contract: 6+ Months
Benefits: Medical, Dental and VisionJob 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 *** Data.
• Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.

Skills:

• Native speaker of Telugu.
• 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.
• 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:

• Native speaker of Telugu.
• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.

Nice to Skills:

• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
• Experience with programing language like Python
• Having worked with large amounts of language data
• Deep dive analysis of data would be nice

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.”
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Salary:

Location: Menlo Park, CA

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:30:21 GMT


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