Linguist (Brazilian Portuguese)

PROLIM Global Corporation ( is currently seeking Linguist (Brazilian Portuguese) for location Burlingame, California, United States for one of our Top clients.

Job Description:

Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP for the language of expertise.

Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.

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.

Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.

Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.

Skills:

Native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese or demonstrated near-native fluency

Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.

Command line/scripting/coding skills (Python, bash, regexes)

Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.

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.

Apply online for immediate consideration, please send your updated resume, and contact info via email

About PROLIM Corporation

PROLIM is a leading provider of end-to-end IT, PLM and Engineering Services and Solutions for Global 1000 companies. They understand business as much as technology, and help their customers improve their profitability and efficiency by providing high value technology consulting, staffing, and project management outsourcing services.

Their IT and PLM consulting offerings include; Advisory, PLM Software/Services, Program Management, Solution Architecture Training/Staffing, Cloud Solutions, Servers/Networking, Infrastructure, ERP Practices and QA Services. Engineering services include Data Translation, CAD/CAM/CAE, Process & Product Engineering, Prototyping, and Testing/Validation within a wide range of markets and industries.

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