Senior Linguist

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Ascendion is an AI-native software engineering disruptor helping businesses innovate faster, smarter, and with greater impact. We partner with enterprise clients across North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC to solve complex challenges in data, experience design, software product engineering, and workforce transformation. Powered by expert engineers, thousands of AI agents, and our Engineering to the Power of AI (EngineeringAI) method, we deliver measurable outcomes that build trust, unlock value, and accelerate growth.

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Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for the world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the role:

• The main function of a Linguist is to determine speech data needs and setting strategic vision for data based model and product improvements.

Job Title : Senior Linguist

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality.
• Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, Part-of-Speech (POS) identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback.
• Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes.
• Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata.
• Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and Part-of-Speech (POS) tagger performance and remedy pain points.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
• Minimum 3 years in Phonetics, Phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• Native or near-native speaker of at least 2 languages including English as one of the languages.
• Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language.
• Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms.
• Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems.
• Working knowledge with Python, SQL and Large Language Models (LLM’s).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
• Prior FAANG/Big Tech

Location: Onsite in one of these offices [Burlingame, CA or Redmond, WA]

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $68,640 – $128,160 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits : The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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