Linguist

Date Posted: 10/06/2025

Hiring Organization: Rose International

Position Number: 489583

Industry: Social Media

Job Title: Linguist

Job Location: Redmond, WA, USA, 98052

Work Model: Onsite

Shift: Mon – Fri 8am – 5pm

Employment Type: Temporary

FT/PT: Full-Time

Estimated Duration (In months): 13

Min Hourly Rate($): 54.00

Max Hourly Rate($): 54.00

Must Have Skills/Attributes: Python, SQL, Technical Writing

Experience Desired: Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science (2 yrs); Data annotation management (2 yrs); SQL proficient; must have work experience using SQL (2 yrs); Work experience using Python for data processing and data analysis (2 yrs)

Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree

**C2C is not available**

Job Description
Client Approved Onsite Location: Onsite 5 days a week in NYC, Redmond, WA, Sunnyvale, CA, Burlingame, CA

REQUIRED:

Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field
1 to 4 years of experience along with degree
Data annotation management
SQL proficient
Python for data processing and data analysis

Good to have skills:

Data visualization
Descriptive statistics
Dashboard experience (PowerBI, Unidash, Tableau)
Knowledge of other languages
Text data analysis (or NLP)
Nice to have languages German, Italian, French, Spanish, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Dutch

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

Job Responsibilities:
Design test sets and conduct experiments for evaluating system response quality
Develop manual and automated processes and methods for analyzing emergent integrity, security and privacy trends.
Analyze system metrics such as threat identification per product feature and remedy pain points.
Develop red teaming instructions or guidelines to train internal or external red teams
Plan and lead campaign-style internal red team operations
Communicate metrics and analysis to appropriate teams
Determine conversational design, policy and product help guidance with appropriate cross-functional teams per red teaming feature

This role may involve potential exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content including but not limited to graphic images, videos and writings, offensive or derogatory language, and other potential objectionable material, i.e. child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, animal abuse, and other content which may be considered offensive or disturbing.

Skills:
Knowledge of regular expressions, SQL and basic scripting
Excellent technical writing and communication skills both verbal and written.
Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
Creativity to identify vulnerabilities and develop innovative attack scenarios.

Ability to work with graphic and objectionable content.

Education/Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field.

Dashboard experience (PowerBI, Unidash, Tableau) Knowledge of other languages Text data analysis (or NLP) Nice to have languages German, Italian, French, Spanish, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Dutch

Years of experience needed: 1-4 years of experience

Story behind the Need – Business Group & Key Projects:
Data monitoring and annotation pipelines for safety and privacy Design test sets and conduct experiments for evaluating system response quality Create and monitor annotation queues, and conduct data analysis and deep dives for safety annotation and response quality

Is there anything we can share with Candidates to compel them to choose Client over competitors?:
This role combines data annotation and model analytics skills in one, where linguistic engineers are making meaningful measurements on multimodal LLMs The successful candidate will be working on high-impact projects on Client Wearables

Typical Day in the Role:
Data annotation: Write annotation guidelines, ingest data into annotation queues, provide vendor feedback Model analytics: Provide error analysis to research and engineering teams on human and automated evaluations

How will performance be measured:
(Client FTEs cannot measure performance formally for CWs)

Interview Process/Format:
2 interviews, 1 behavioral, 1 technical.
Refusals and Safety CW Interview Qs

**Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
**Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**

Benefits:
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California Pay Equity:
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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.

If you need assistance in completing this application, or during any phase of the application, interview, hiring, or employment process, whether due to a disability or otherwise, please contact our HR Department.

Rose International has an official agreement (ID #132522), effective June 30, 2008, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Employment Verification Program (E-Verify). (Posting required by OCGA 13/10-91.).

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