Description
Come be a part of our mission and make a meaningful and positive impact with the industry leading provider of language services for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing!
Full time Benefits
* Paid Vacation Time and Paid Sick Time and Paid Holidays
* 401k 6% match with immediate vesting
* Nationwide Medical Insurance plans and coverage (Medical, Dental/Orthodontia, Vision)
* TeleDoc
* HSA company match
* 3 Medical plan options including a Low Deductible PPO Medical Plan Offering
* Employee Assistance Program
* Engaged Employee Resource Groups
* Outstanding Learning and Career Development Opportunities
Pay Range: Actual pay may vary up or down depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for incentive compensation.
* Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the United States to be considered. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role *
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
* Maintain and expand Sorenson's ASL sign dictionary - author new entries, review and update existing entries, document regional and register variants, and resolve disputed entries with the Lead.
* Annotate ASL video using advanced gloss conventions, including classifier predicates (locative, instrument, semantic, body-part, and element classifiers), non-manual markers, role shift, and prosody.
* Partner with AI/ML engineering teams to clarify linguistic requirements for training data, review model outputs for linguistic accuracy, and provide feedback on edge cases.
* Review text-to-sign avatar output for ASL grammatical accuracy, naturalness, and cultural appropriateness; document issues using standardized rubrics.
* Lead weekly linguistic calibration sessions; own gloss and classifier convention documentation and decision logs.
* Mentor Sign Language Specialists during cross-functional rotations.
* Maintain accurate records of annotation work, decisions, and edge cases in team tooling and documentation systems.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Travel Requirements
Travel Requirements: Less than 25%
Education
Minimum of 4 Year / Bachelors Degree In ASL Linguistics, Deaf Studies, ASL Studies, Interpreting, Deaf Education, or related fields.
Preferred Graduate Degree In ASL Linguistics, Linguistics, Deaf Studies, Interpreting, Deaf Education, or a related field.
Experience
3 Years of substantive professional ASL work (annotation, linguistics, interpreting, Deaf education, or comparable).
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
* Required
* Bilingual in ASL in English, with the ability to produce and quality-assure professional English transcriptions from ASL source content.
* Deep working knowledge of ASL linguistics - gloss conventions, non-manual markers, classifier predicates, role shift, and ASL grammar.
* Active and informed participant in the Deaf community, with awareness of regional and generational ASL variation.
* Experience producing or annotating ASL content for instructional, research, interpreting, or media purposes.
* Strong written English for documentation, task specifications, and cross-team collaboration.
* Comfortable working with computer-based annotation tools and learning new software.
* Attention to detail, consistency, and a willingness to follow and improve standardized conventions.
* Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with peer Specialists, the Lead, and engineering teams.
* Proficiency with standard productivity and collaboration tools (Microsoft Office, Confluence, JIRA, or equivalent).
* Positive attitude, team player, strong interpersonal communication skil
ls, and able to work across research, engineering, and business departments.
* Preferred
* American Sign Language as a primary... For full info follow application link.