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Iron Systems, Inc

Linguist II

Iron Systems, Inc, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94087

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Job Title : Linguist II

Location : US - CA - Remote

Job Description We are looking for a Linguist to help us develop language components for a variety of voice‑enabled technologies and products. We seek candidates 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, curation, translation, localization and annotation efforts.

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

Assess model and data quality.

Perform prompt engineering.

Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses.

Required Qualifications

Master’s degree in general Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field.

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 (e.g., SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others).

Experience with Python.

Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Preferred (additional) Qualifications

PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

Proficiency in Python.

Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket).

Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP libraries and tools.

Seniority level Mid‑Senior level

Employment type Full‑time

Job function Information Technology

Industry IT Services and IT Consulting

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