What are the responsibilities and job description for the Linguist II position at SGS Consulting?
Job Details
Job Description:
Must-Have Skills: 1. Technical skills 2. SQL Skills 3. Strong project management skills 4. Arabic dialect experience.
Nice-to-Have Skills: 1. Linguistic knowledge ability to understand errors.
Years of Experience: 2 Years
Education/Experience: Bachelor s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field. |
Summary:
The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data-based model and product improvements.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP.
- Collaborate with XFN Partners to gather and prepare audio files for TTS human evaluations.
- Work closely with external vendors to track progress on evaluations, address any issues or concerns, and ensure that deliverables meet our quality standards.
- Analyze received deliverables and provide actionable insights to XFN partners. Address deep dive requests from stakeholders regarding specific aspects of the results.
- Monitor and track the progress of annotation queues to ensure timely completion and identify any bottlenecks or delays.
- Address and resolve questions from annotators regarding guidelines to ensure clarity and consistency in annotation tasks.
Skills:
- Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and other areas of linguistics.
- Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Spreadsheet Management: Proficient in managing and working with spreadsheets.
- Program Evaluation: Experienced in program management and evaluation.
- Linguistic Skills: Strong understanding of phonetics and phonology.
- Language Proficiency: Native English speaker.
- Guideline Maintenance: Proven experience in maintaining guidelines and resolving related questions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Language Familiarity: Familiarity with French, Italian, German, or Spanish (FIGS) languages.
- Data Analysis: Basic data analysis skills.
Related Job Titles/Skill Sets: Cognitive Science, Speech Perception, Phonetic transcription, automated transcriptions.
Degrees/Certifications Required: Bachelor s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
