Principal Speech Data Linguist

About this task

Own linguistic standards and quality for speech segmentation and transcription workflows, including the development of human-in-the-loop processes as speech and audio models evolve.

Responsibilities:
- Define transcription and segmentation standards, style guides, and annotation conventions, including verbatim and clean transcription, phonetic transcription, timestamping, speaker labeling, disfluencies, non-speech events, code-switching, and orthography.
- Establish quality frameworks, rubrics, error taxonomies, adjudication processes, inter-annotator agreement, and human QA.
- Own the quality lifecycle for transcription and segmentation deliverables and guide consistent application of linguistic standards.
- Apply linguistic judgment and knowledge of speech research and tools to improve model training and evaluation workflows.

Requirements:
- Principal-level expertise in linguistics and speech/audio transcription or segmentation.
- Strong knowledge of transcription methods, linguistic standards, annotation quality, and adjudication.
- Familiarity with IPA, acoustic analysis, forced alignment, and ASR evaluation is relevant.

Remote - United States. Salary range: $160,000 - $185,000 p/year.