Lead Linguistic Engineer
Infogain
5 - 10 years
Noida
Posted: 17/12/2025
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Job Description
Location: Infogain Bengaluru
Experience: 710 years
Role Overview
The Lead Linguistic Engineer manages end-to-end linguistic quality for Hindi , ensuring accuracy across annotation, evaluation, guideline development, and workflow calibration. This role supports delivery excellence and guides a team of Hindi linguists.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the linguistic quality pipeline for Hindi across all workflows.
- Create, maintain, and refine Hindi linguistic guidelines and rulebooks.
- Review morphology, syntax, semantics, and grammar (including agreement and case-marking).
- Validate NER, sentiment, entity-tagging, intent classification, and text/speech annotations.
- Conduct weekly calibration sessions to maintain consistency.
- Identify and document Hindi-specific linguistic error patterns.
- Provide mentoring to Senior Linguists and Linguistic Engineers.
- Partner with Principal Linguists for diagnostics and linguistic decision-making.
Required Skills
- Deep knowledge of Hindi grammar, orthography (Devanagari), and dialectal variations.
- Strong understanding of linguistic evaluation metrics (WER, MOS, F1).
- Experience with HindiEnglish code-mixed data.
- Hands-on experience with annotation and evaluation tools.
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