Job Details

Title: Linguist II (Brazilian Portuguese)

Duration: 09 months

Location: Burlingame, CA

Summary:

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP for the language of expertise.
• Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• 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.
• 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:

• Native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese or demonstrated near-native fluency
• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics.
• Command line/scripting/coding skills (Python, bash, regexes)
• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI.

Must-Have Skills:

• Coding and scripting
• Command line/ /coding skills (Python, bash, regexes)
• Phonology transcription
• Brazilian and Portuguese
• Native speaker

Nice-to-have Skills

• Python - scripting

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.