Computational Linguist

Job Summary: Linguistic Engineer Specialist – Tamil

Job Description:

Core Skills

Role Summary

The Linguistic Engineer Specialist – Tamil serves as the primary linguistic owner for their assigned language. This role defines linguistic rules, guidelines, and quality frameworks while mentoring Senior Linguists and Linguistic Engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end linguistic quality and correctness for the assigned language.
• Develop linguistic guidelines, rulebooks, and standards for annotation and evaluation.
• Review complex linguistic cases, escalations, and edge-case exceptions.
• Oversee NLU, ASR, and TTS linguistic evaluations.
• Conduct weekly calibrations and oversee quality stability.
• Mentor Senior Linguists and Linguistic Engineers within the language pod.
• Support test set creation, adversarial case identification, and diagnostics.

Requirements

• 7–10 years of experience in linguistics or linguistic engineering.
• Native-level proficiency in the assigned language (Tamil).
• Deep knowledge of grammar, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialectal variations, and orthography.
• Strong analytical and linguistic decision-making skills.