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Job Title: Linguist Location: Remote Duration: Contract - 12 months Pay Range: $35/hr $40/hr (W2) Job ID: 406613 About BCforward BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity. Job Description We are seeking a Linguist II to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in linguistic data analysis, language technologies, and LLM/AI data operations and a proven ability to support data collection, synthetic data generation, annotation, and evaluation for LLM training, alignment, and AI agent development. Responsibilities: Apply linguistic expertise in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics to support LLM and generative AI systems. Collaborate with linguists, data operations teams, and ML engineers on data collection, curation, annotation, and localization for model training and fine-tuning. Develop and maintain annotation schemas and guidelines for LLM training data, including instruction-tuning, preference labeling, and RLHF. Evaluate and quality-check datasets for pre-training, fine-tuning, and alignment of language models. Support programmatic methods for generating synthetic annotated data at scale. Assist in model evaluation through prompt-based testing, red-teaming, and linguistic error analysis. Contribute to AI safety and responsible AI practices, including hallucination detection, bias identification, and tone and pragmatic review. Participate in experiments to assess data quality, annotation consistency, and downstream model performance. Required Skills & Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Speech Science, or related field. 1+ years of experience in Linguistics, Language Technologies, NLP, or AI/ML data operations, or equivalent. Native or near-native fluency in English and at least one additional language. Knowledge of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics. Familiarity with Large Language Models, including training data, evaluation, prompting, and fine-tuning practices. Exposure to LLM evaluation methodologies such as human evaluation, automated metrics, and adversarial testing. Experience with semantic ontologies, taxonomies, or intent/slot frameworks. Proficiency using AI agents and chatbots. Experience with database queries and data analysis processes such as SQL, spreadsheets, R, or Unix. Experience working with speech and text data in multiple languages. Comfort working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with evolving priorities. Preferred Skills: Master's degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Technologies, or related field. Familiarity with ML frameworks and NLP libraries and tools, such as Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK, or PyTorch. Exposure to statistical language modeling or training data pipelines. Strong organizational skills and attention to detail. Why BCforward? At BCforward, we believe in advancing lives and careers. When you join our team, you gain access to: Competitive compensation and benefits. Opportunities for growth with global clients. A supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people. Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and projects. About Our Commitment BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Interested? Apply Now! If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply with your most recent resume.