Linguist III
Posted: 09/01/2026
Job Number: 42717
Job Description
Linguist III
Onsite
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.
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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Onsite
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.
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
- Bachelors 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
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with database queries and data analysis processes (i.e. SQL, spreadsheets)
- 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
- Masters or PhD in Linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, or related field
- Experience with machine learning frameworks, NLP Libraries and Tools
- 4-5 + Years of experience working in a Linguist role
- Conversational assistant, ML Support, LLMs
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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