Linguist II
Posted: 07/13/2026
Job Number: 42507
Job Description
Linguist II
Hybrid
Summary
We are looking for a linguist to help develop language components for AI-powered products, including large language models (LLMs) and voice-enabled technologies. We are seeking candidates with solid linguistic data analysis skills, programming familiarity, and language technology experience to contribute to data collection, synthetic data generation, and annotation tasks in support of LLM/AI training, evaluation, alignment, and AI agent development.
Responsibilities
Pay range is $43 - $48 per hour with full benefits available, including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/life insurance, 401K, parental leave, and more. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
THE PROMISES WE MAKE:
At Crystal Equation, we empower people and advance technology initiatives by building trust. Your recruiter will prep you for the interview, obtain feedback, guide you through any necessary paperwork and provide everything you need for a successful start. We will serve to empower you along the way and provide the path for your professional journey.
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Hybrid
Summary
We are looking for a linguist to help develop language components for AI-powered products, including large language models (LLMs) and voice-enabled technologies. We are seeking candidates with solid linguistic data analysis skills, programming familiarity, and language technology experience to contribute to data collection, synthetic data generation, and annotation tasks in support of LLM/AI training, evaluation, alignment, and AI agent development.
Responsibilities
- Apply linguistic expertise in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics to support LLM and generative AI systems
- Collaborate with linguists, data operations teams, and ML engineers on data collection, curation, annotation, and localization efforts for model training and fine-tuning
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of annotation schemas and guidelines for LLM training data (e.g., instruction-tuning, preference labeling, RLHF)
- Evaluate and quality-check datasets used for pre-training, fine-tuning, and alignment of language models
- Support the development of programmatic methods for generating synthetic annotated data at scale
- Assist in model evaluation efforts including prompt-based testing, red-teaming, and linguistic error analysis
- Participate in experiments to assess data quality, annotation consistency, and downstream model performance
- Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Speech Science, or related field
- 1+ years of experience in Linguistics, Language Technologies, NLP, or AI/ML data operations (or equivalent)
- Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and other areas of linguistics
- Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), their applications and data practices (training data, evaluation, prompting, fine-tuning)
- Exposure to LLM evaluation methodologies (human evaluation, automated metrics, adversarial testing)
- Experience working with semantic ontologies, taxonomies, or intent/slot frameworks
- Proficiency using AI Agents/Chatbots
- Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (SQL, spreadsheets, R, Unix, or others)
- Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with evolving priorities
- Native or near-native fluency in English and at least one additional language
- Master's degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Technologies, or a related field
- Familiarity with machine learning frameworks, NLP libraries, and tools (e.g., Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK, PyTorch)
- Exposure to statistical language modeling or training data pipelines
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Pay range is $43 - $48 per hour with full benefits available, including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/life insurance, 401K, parental leave, and more. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
THE PROMISES WE MAKE:
At Crystal Equation, we empower people and advance technology initiatives by building trust. Your recruiter will prep you for the interview, obtain feedback, guide you through any necessary paperwork and provide everything you need for a successful start. We will serve to empower you along the way and provide the path for your professional journey.
For more information regarding our Privacy Policy, please visit crystalequation.com/privacy.
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