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 III
Location: NJ - North Metro - Remote

Job Description: Summary:

• The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting the 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 language model 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.

Skills:

• Strong coding skills (Python and SQL).
• Data analysis and annotation skills.
• Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, syntax, sociolinguistics and other areas of linguistics.
• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Familiarity with Large Language Models preferred.
• Familiarity with multimodal systems and/or computer vision preferred.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field is preferred