Linguist – Tamil, Telugu, Hindi

Role Overview

• Develop and review linguistic rubrics, taxonomies, and annotation guidelines.
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to co-develop project-specific linguistic standards and documentation.
• Conduct linguistic reviews, quality assurance, and error analysis to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Support projects involving ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition), TTS (Text-to-Speech), transcription, speech annotation, and NLP.
• Provide linguistic expertise to improve annotation quality and AI model performance.

Requirements

• Master's or Ph.D. in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• Native or near-native proficiency in the target language with excellent English communication skills.
• 3+ years of experience in AI language data, linguistic annotation, localization, or speech technology projects.
• Proven experience in creating annotation guidelines, rubric/tag development, taxonomy design, and linguistic quality frameworks.
• Experience working directly with clients to develop and review linguistic guidelines.
• Strong understanding of ASR, TTS, transcription, speech annotation, and NLP workflows.