Linguist II (Mandarin speaking) Job at Infotech Sourcing, New York, NY

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  • Infotech Sourcing
  • New York, NY

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Linguist II : 65286-1

Location: Onsite - New York OR Burlingame OR seattle

Duration: 9 months contract - May be extensions

Details: 

We are looking for a Linguist to help us develop language components for a variety of voice-enabled technologies and products. We are seeking candidates with native fluency in Mandarin (Simplified Chinese) with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, localization and quality evaluations. 

 

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 

• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions 

• Assess model and data quality 

• Prompt engineering 

• 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 related field 

• Native or near-native fluency in Mandarin (Simplified Chinese), and at least another language 

• Awareness of Indian languages and their linguistic, cultural, local nuances 

• 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), prompt engineering and their applications • Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment 

• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others) 

• 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 

• Proficient in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese 

• Proficiency in Python 

• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools

 

Must-Have Skills: 

● Proficient in Mandarin language 

● Masters degree is good - bachelors degree with experience 

● Data linguistic, RegEx, SQL 

 

Nice-to-have Skills: 

● Python language 

 

Years of Experience: 

● 2-3 years of experience 

● If they have masters degree and good academic background then no experience is fine 

● If someone has bachelor's degree then we need at least 2 years of experience

Job Tags

Contract work, Local area,

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