Iron Systems is an innovative, customer-focused provider of custom-built computing infrastructure platforms such as network servers, storage, OEM/ODM appliances & embedded systems. For more than 15 years, customer have trusted us for our innovative problem solving combined with holistic design, engineering, manufacturing, logistic and global support services.

Job Title: Linguist II

Location: US - CA - Remote

Job Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise, especially in the areas of syntax, semantics, taxonomies, and NLU
• Develop strategies for labeling visual and language data together
• Create guidelines in support of labeling projects that allow vendor labelers to consistently label language, visual, and motion data at quality
• Analyze labeling quality and adjust guidelines as necessary to ensure labeling quality. Enforce labeling standards
  
  

Skills:

• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, and taxonomies
• Ability to work in ambiguous space and develop norms and processes
• 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.
  
  

Top 3 must-have HARD skills:

• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
• Experience with SQL, spreadsheets, and other data tools
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
  
  

Good to have skills:

• Programming experience such as python, PHP, or Javascript Education/Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field. occasion