Linguist

Pyramid, Inc

Burlingame, CA

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JOB DETAILS

SALARY

$40–$47 Per Hour

JOB TYPE

Contractor

SKILLS

Computational Linguistics, Concurrency, Customer/Client Research, Data Modeling, Employee Benefits, Entertainment and Media, Experiment Design, Internationalization, Linguistics, Metadata, Metrics, Multilingual, Multitasking, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python Programming/Scripting Language, Quality Metrics, SQL (Structured Query Language), Social Media, Systems Analysis, Wearables

LOCATION

Burlingame, CA

POSTED

30+ days ago

Immediate need for a talented Linguist. This is a 06 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in USA (Remote). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.Job ID:26-07789Pay Range: $40 - $47/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location). Key Responsibilities: Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of 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 metadata. Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points.Key Requirements and Technology Experience: Must have skills: - "Linguistics Expertise (Turkish)”, “Text to Speech (TTS)”, “Python", “SQL” Core responsibilities of TTS: Build and improve TTS models (speech generation) to sound more natural, expressive, and robust, including things like prosody and non-verbal cues (e.g., laughter/breath) Multilingual i18n support: expand language coverage and handle tricky cases like code-switching, accents, and language ID Deploy/integrate models into products (sometimes including on-device inference constraints for wearables) Evaluation quality measurement: develop pipelines/guidelines to measure naturalness and expressivity Native speaker expertise for new TTS locales Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field. Language requirement for this role: Turkish Candidates need to be linguists experts, not just native speakersOur client is a leading Social Media Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration. Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.By applying to our jobs you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Pyramid Consulting, Inc. and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy here.J2W:CB3

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