Analytical Linguist

Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an Analytical Linguist to join our Core Product team. We use a combination of AI technologies to drive our high-quality writing feedback, including machine learning and generative AI. Analytical Linguists are essential to ensuring that our communication features provide high-quality and actionable suggestions for our users. In this role, you will define the expected behavior of our product features drawing from research and data analysis. You will also curate datasets and develop key generative AI capabilities.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

As an Analytical Linguist, you will:

• Conduct research on a number of linguistic and communication issues (e.g., different modes, genres, and styles of writing).
• Analyze user feedback to improve our product offering and identify linguistic solutions to user problems.
• Curate datasets for AI development, including designing annotation guidelines, performing quality control, and generating synthetic data.
• Leverage existing NLP technologies and AI solutions, including LLMs.
• Collaborate with software engineers, applied research scientists, computational linguists, and product managers on complex solutions to natural language processing tasks.
• Work with, develop, and improve scripts to process data associated with our generative AI and annotation needs.

Qualifications

• Has at least a bachelor’s degree in linguistics.
• Is a team player who enjoys spending time with data, linguistic annotation, and evaluation.
• Speaks and writes English fluently and has an excellent grasp of English grammar and communication.
• Is positive, organized, and detail-oriented.
• Has at least two years of industry experience as an analytical linguist or related role.
• Is proficient with scripting languages (preferably Python) in a Linux environment.
• Has experience with research processes and qualitative and quantitative approaches.
• Has worked with and developed annotated corpora, including crowdsourcing and/or vendor management.
• Has experience in developing and evaluating prompt-based solutions.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We also support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs. 
• Comprehensive benefits for candidates based in Germany: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing life care (including mental health care and risk benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, wellness and pet care stipends, learning and development opportunities, and more.

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply. Grammarly is an equal-opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, disability, sexual identity, or age.

For more details about the personal data Grammarly collects during the recruitment process, for what purposes, and how you can address your rights, please see the Grammarly Data Privacy Notice for Candidates here. 

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