Rose International
Overview
Date Posted: 09/29/2025
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 489256
Industry: Social Media
Job Title: Linguist
Job Location: Burlingame, CA, USA, 94010
Work Model: Onsite
Shift: Mon – Fri 8am – 5pm
Employment Type: Temporary
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 7
Min Hourly Rate($): 54.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 54.00
Responsibilities
Role Responsibilities (including, but not limited to): Provide linguistic expertise in 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 Client data.
Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.
Qualifications
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field.
Must be a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese; advanced or near-native alone is not sufficient.
Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and other areas of linguistics.
Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
Knowledge of transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA, and ToBI.
Basic SQL work experience; ability to write up the technical side.
Technical experience or strong familiarity with Python or GIT and data analysis.
Text processing such as NLP.
Experience Desired:
Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, etc. (2 yrs).
Experience in phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics (2 yrs).
Experience in analyzing waveforms and spectrograms (2 yrs).
Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI (2 yrs).
Work/Legal Notes Role may involve exposure to graphic, sensitive and/or objectionable content. C2C is not available. Client onsite location is Burlingame, CA; onsite 5 days a week, fully remote acceptable only if required.
Benefits For information and details on employment benefits offered with this position, please visit our HR resources or contact our HR Department via our secure website.
Equal Opportunity & Compliance Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.
If you need assistance completing this application, or during any phase of the process, whether due to disability or otherwise, please contact our HR Department.
Pursuant to various Fair Chance Acts, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some material job duties and the ability to adhere to company policies, manage stress, and work safely and respectfully with others.
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Responsibilities
Role Responsibilities (including, but not limited to): Provide linguistic expertise in 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 Client data.
Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.
Qualifications
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field.
Must be a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese; advanced or near-native alone is not sufficient.
Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and other areas of linguistics.
Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
Knowledge of transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA, and ToBI.
Basic SQL work experience; ability to write up the technical side.
Technical experience or strong familiarity with Python or GIT and data analysis.
Text processing such as NLP.
Experience Desired:
Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, etc. (2 yrs).
Experience in phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics (2 yrs).
Experience in analyzing waveforms and spectrograms (2 yrs).
Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI (2 yrs).
Work/Legal Notes Role may involve exposure to graphic, sensitive and/or objectionable content. C2C is not available. Client onsite location is Burlingame, CA; onsite 5 days a week, fully remote acceptable only if required.
Benefits For information and details on employment benefits offered with this position, please visit our HR resources or contact our HR Department via our secure website.
Equal Opportunity & Compliance Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.
If you need assistance completing this application, or during any phase of the process, whether due to disability or otherwise, please contact our HR Department.
Pursuant to various Fair Chance Acts, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some material job duties and the ability to adhere to company policies, manage stress, and work safely and respectfully with others.
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