Linguistics Expert (SME)

Purpose

We are seeking a highly experienced Linguistics professional consultant to serve as a consultant on AI training data projects for leading AI model builders and enterprises. Your focus will be to define success criteria, review outputs, and provide targeted guidance to improve quality and speed — directly contributing to the successful delivery of domain‑specific annotated datasets that meet the highest technical standards. You will be engaged on specific projects with clearly defined deliverables, milestones, and end dates.

Components

Technical Standard Setting, Quality Control, and Process Improvement

• Define domain‑specific quality success metrics (e.g., accuracy of transcription, consistency in linguistic annotation schemes, phonetic transcription accuracy, adherence to grammatical frameworks, correct use of linguistic markup standards such as IPA or Universal Dependencies).
• Develop project‑specific SOPs, QA rubrics, and reference materials for the specific purpose of meeting client technical standards.
• Review project outputs (transcriptions, annotations, language datasets) against technical standards, flagging and correcting defects before client delivery.
• Perform structured QA passes on daily / weekly deliverables; flag, track, and resolve defects quickly to hit delivery deadlines.
• Return work to contractors with precise remediation notes.
• Provide advisory input on tools, workflows, and processes to meet quality benchmarks.
• Handle spec changes and edge‑case scenarios — e.g., annotation of rare dialects or ambiguous language constructs — drafting acceptance criteria or workarounds.
• Curate example libraries of “gold standard” linguistic data for calibration and comparability to agreed reference samples.

Talent Vetting & Output Improvement

Project Delivery Support

Target Profile

Example Data Annotation – Potential Scope

Field of Study

Register / genre fit enforcement, dialect fidelity, orthography consistency

Dialect / register policy setting, code‑switch handling

Transcription accuracy, disfluency policy, prosodic annotation

Script / orthography / romanization standards, tokenization

Named entity handling, punctuation conventions

Metadata completeness, defect tracking, IAA monitoring

Policy compliance checking, edge‑case arbitration

Validator creation (regex / scripts), automation of QA checks

Prompt / script design, scenario coverage

Gold‑standard library curation, reviewer calibration

Multiscript / multimodal transcription QA

Compensation

We offer a pay range of $25‑to‑$100 per hour, with the exact rate determined after evaluating your experience, expertise, and geographic location. Final offer amounts may vary from the pay range listed above. As a contractor you’ll supply a secure computer and high‑speed internet; company‑sponsored benefits such as health insurance and PTO do not apply.

Job Details

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