Linguist

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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Mackin Talent

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Mackin Talent is an international recruitment and staffing firm that specializes in placing world-class STEM talent across the globe. The company provides a range of services including managed staffing (SOW & RPO), virtual bench and remote workers, direct-hire executive search, workforce planning, talent retention, and learning and development. Mackin works with companies of all sizes—from global tech firms to startups—delivering customized, relationship-focused solutions for contingent and permanent hiring needs.

📋 Description

• Perform linguistic analyses on large datasets • Perform linguistic error analysis of AI model outputs and identify frequent and severe error categories • Write and revise guidelines for human annotation and other AI projects, including translation tasks • Conduct typological and sociolinguistic research across many languages • Analyze toxic language, hate speech, gender bias, and other cultural biases for Responsible AI in multilingual settings • Conduct linguistic literature reviews on NLP-adjacent topics and summarize findings • Compare vendor delivery quality, identify error patterns, and provide actionable feedback • Provide guidance on linguistic topics including typology, morpho-syntax, sociolinguistics, classification, phonetics/phonology, and pragmatics • Collaborate with native speakers of various languages • Communicate linguistic analysis results to engineers and research scientists

🎯 Requirements

• Near-native or native proficiency in a language other than English, specifically a language from the Dravidian or Bantu families/groups; Swahili is a plus • Near-native or native proficiency in English • Must be able to code in Python • Must be able to query databases using SQL • Must be able to independently work through complex requests and perform under pressure • Strong ability to work independently, prioritize, plan, track work, and report progress • Self-motivation is a must • Working knowledge of international language-classification standards is valued • PhD in Linguistics or related field must be completed, not in progress • Must have a firm grasp of language typology, syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, writing systems, pragmatics, and phonology • Some experience applying basic Natural Language Processing techniques • 0–3 years of experience • Experience working cross-functionally • Experience collaborating with machine learning, NLP, or software engineers, or data scientists • Experience contributing to research papers • Preferably no known conflicts of interest in machine translation, ASR, TTS, or LLM research • A graduate degree in Literature or English is not an appropriate substitution • A degree in Computer Science with a specialization in NLP is not an appropriate substitution

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Healthcare contribution • Inclusion in company pension scheme • Work laptop and phone • 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) plus paid bank holidays • Potential for career progression for top performers

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