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: US - WA - Redmond

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 strong linguistic data analysis and language technology experience to manage data collection,
• LLM-powered data synthesis and data annotation tasks, prompt engineering, rule-based classifier encoding, and quality evaluations.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise while delivering data for large language models 
• Collaborate with other linguists and data operations teams in data collection, data curation, and annotation efforts 
• Evaluate and curate data sets for ML models using LLM solutions 
• Assess model performance and data quality 
• Prompt engineering 
• Create guidelines in support of labeling projects that enable annotators to consistently label language data at quality 
• Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in general Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related field 
• Experience with regular expression encoding 
• Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics 
• Experience working with speech and text data • Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering and their applications 
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment 
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented 
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written 
• Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets) 
• Proficiency in Python

Preferred (additional) Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in Linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field 
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
• 2-3 Years of experience working in a Linguist role Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs