Linguist
Job Posting for Linguist at The World's Largest Social Network
HireArt is helping the world’s largest social network to find a Linguist to determine speech data needs, set the strategic vision for a data-based model, and assist in product improvements.
As a Linguist, you will:
HireArt values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas or Corp to Corp hiring.
As a Linguist, you will:
- Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
- Design and conduct experiments for evaluating model and data 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/remedy pain points.
- Employer-subsidized health, vision, and dental insurance
- Employer-subsidized life insurance
- Employer-subsidized short and long-term disability insurance
- Pre-tax commuter and healthcare spending
- A generous paid-time-off package
- 401k (unmatched)
- Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or a related field
- 2 years of experience in linguistics, language technologies, or NLP
- Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
- Experience with SQL, spreadsheets, and other data tools, familiarity with Unix environments
- Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically
- 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
- Programming experience, such as python, PHP, or Javascript is a plus
HireArt values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas or Corp to Corp hiring.
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