Linguist II (Tamil)

Company: Tailored Management
Location: Burlingame
Posted on: March 4, 2026

Job Description:

Job Title: Linguist II (Tamil) Job ID: 69053-1 Pay : $50-$53/hr. Location : Remote (PST Preferred) Estimated Start Date : ASAP Duration: 3-month contract starting M-F, full-time (40 hours); W2 Health Benefits PTO Summary: The main function of a TTS Linguist CW is to determine speech data needs and make for data based model and product improvements. Top 3 must-have HARD skills: Native-level fluency in Tamil Familiarity with command-line, scripting, and versioning systems Phonetics/phonology, including experience with transcription in IPA or SAMPA -OR- experience with regexes Good to have skills: Python Data analysis Job Responsibilities: Provide linguistic expertise in the areas of phonetics, phonology, lexicography, dialectology, and NLP. Design and conduct experiments for evaluating transcription quality. Develop manual and automated processes for multiple concurrent projects including ensuring high-quality label alignments, prosodic classification, POS identification and disambiguation, targeted modeling data, and user feedback. Create and perfect text normalization and inverse text normalization processes. Manage lexical and phrasal transcriptions and related metadata. Analyze system metrics such as user opinion, lexicon transcription coverage, and POS tagger performance and remedy pain points. Core responsibilities Build and improve TTS models (speech generation) to sound more natural, expressive, and robust, including things like prosody and non-verbal cues (e.g., laughter/breath) Multilingual i18n support: expand language coverage and handle tricky cases like code-switching, accents, and language ID Deploy/integrate models into products (sometimes including on-device inference constraints for wearables) Evaluation quality measurement: develop pipelines/guidelines to measure naturalness and expressivity Native speaker expertise for new TTS locales Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition : Varied tasks, lots of opportunities to leverage native speaker insights for linguistic applications This role allows a lot of freedom to affect the voice quality for users in their native language to ensure they have the best possible user experience Skills : Knowledge of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology and other areas of linguistics. Ability to analyze waveforms and spectrograms. Knowledge of prescriptive writing and punctuation conventions for at least one language. Excellent communication skills both verbal and written. Knowledge in transcription and annotation systems such as SAMPA, IPA and ToBI. Education/Experience: Bachelors degree in linguistics, language technologies, computational linguistics, speech science, or related field. Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation. TM2

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