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Swoon

Computational Linguist

Swoon, Mountain View, California, us, 94039

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Base pay range $58.00/hr - $62.00/hr

Duration:

12 months

Pay Rate:

$58–$62 per hour

Work Hours:

8:30 am–5:30 pm PST

Swoon Staffing is supporting an

AI Linguist

opportunity for a leading global technology company. This role focuses on AI quality, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop data pipelines supporting international markets and large-scale AI products.

This is an execution-focused role centered on bringing

existing AI data pipelines into production . You will work with real data, adapt and scale annotation and evaluation guidelines, identify patterns in multilingual datasets, and collaborate closely with native-language linguists and external vendors. Nothing is built from scratch and there is no model development or engineering ownership.

What You’ll Do

Support AI quality, evaluation, and human judgment workflows for production AI systems

Analyze input and output data to identify patterns, quality issues, and improvement opportunities

Adapt and scale annotation and evaluation guidelines to support large-scale data pipelines

Partner with native-language linguists (Spanish, Portuguese, German) to validate multilingual data

Coordinate with vendors to bring existing pipelines to production at scale

Contribute to data augmentation efforts and process optimization

Create clear documentation and guidelines to support consistent execution

Must-Have Qualifications

2+ years of relevant industry experience in linguistics, NLP, or AI data workflows

Hands‑on experience with large-scale human judgment, annotation, or evaluation pipelines

Proven experience adapting guidelines to scale data pipelines into production

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Comfort working with multilingual data (language fluency not required)

Experience using Python or another scripting language for data inspection or validation

Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Technologies, or a related field

Nice-to-Have

MS or PhD in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, or a related field

Experience with data augmentation or production AI systemsBackground as a Computational Linguist or Language Engineer

Familiarity with vendor‑managed annotation workflows

Seniority level Associate

Employment type Contract

Job function Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Technology, Information and Media

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