Linguist, Tamil

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Create and evaluate linguistic rubrics, taxonomies, and annotation guidelines.

• Partner with clients and internal teams to collaboratively establish project-specific linguistic standards and documentation.

• Perform linguistic reviews, quality assurance, and error analysis to guarantee high-quality deliverables.

• Assist projects related to ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition), TTS (Text-to-Speech), transcription, speech annotation, and NLP.

• Offer linguistic expertise to enhance annotation quality and the performance of AI models.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or a related discipline.

• Native or near-native proficiency in the target language along with exceptional English communication skills.

• Over 3 years of experience in AI language data, linguistic annotation, localization, or projects related to speech technology.

• Demonstrated experience in developing annotation guidelines, rubric/tag creation, taxonomy design, and linguistic quality frameworks.

• Experience collaborating directly with clients to develop and assess linguistic guidelines.

• Solid understanding of ASR, TTS, transcription, speech annotation, and NLP workflows.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• Dynamic and collaborative work environment.