Job Title: Linguist IV
Location: US - WA - West Metro - Remote
Job Description: Summary:
- The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data based model and product improvements.
Job 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.
Skills:
- Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
- Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
- Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.
What We Do
IRON Systems is a leading provider of integrated information technology solutions and last-mile supply chain services to the global Data Center, Edge Computing, Telecom and IoT Infrastructure and adjacent industries.
Focused on enabling end-to-end last-mile global commerce, we provide highly scalable solutions to our customers in more than 100 countries around the world, serving over 800 metros and 100,000 business locations as well as most IT infrastructure manufacturer & software vendors.
By leveraging our proprietary digital operating system platform, we integrate and automate all parts of supply chain business processes as SLA-driven managed services. This includes on-demand workforce marketplace, OEM integration centers, import/export, logistics, warehousing, and maintenance of computing infrastructures.
Founded in 2002, IRON has regional offices in over 20 countries, and is headquartered in Fremont, California, USA.
