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 - Burlingame

Summary

• We are looking for a Linguist to help us develop language components for a variety of voice-enabled technologies and products.
• We are seeking candidates with native fluency in Japanese with strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection, LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, localization and quality evaluations.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics 
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, translation, localization and annotation efforts 
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions 
• Assess model and data quality 
• Prompt engineering 
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in general Linguistics or Linguistics with an emphasis on Romance languages, Computational Linguistics, Speech Science, or related field 
• Native or near-native fluency in Japanese, and at least another language 
• Awareness of Indian languages and their linguistic, cultural, local nuances 
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics 
• Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages 
• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications 
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment 
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, RegEx, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others) 
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented 
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Preferred (additional) Qualifications

• PhD in Linguistics or Romance languages, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field 
• Proficiency in Python 
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools