Description
Job Summary
The Sign Language Specialist is the hands-on practitioner role at the center of Sorenson's Sign Language Team. You annotate sign language video content in-house, validate AI-generated output for linguistic correctness, contribute signs to the team's dictionary expansion, and support other Sorenson teams when they need Deaf-led sign-language input.
The team's scope today is the sign-language varieties used in North America, ASL as the core, plus PSE, SEE, and related styles, and is designed to extend to additional sign-language varieties over time.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Review ASL content for training applicability
- Transcribe ASL content to English
- Annotate sign language video content, adding linguistic labels and metadata to raw video.
- Help build and refine the team's sign language dictionary.
- Validate AI-generated sign output for linguistic correctness, naturalness, and cultural appropriateness.
- Provide sign-language consultation to other Sorenson teams as needed.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Travel Requirements
Travel Requirements: Less than 25%
Education
Minimum 4 Year / Bachelors Degree In ASL Linguistics, Deaf Studies, ASL Studies, Interpreting, Deaf Education, or related fields.
Experience
2 Years of substantive professional ASL work (annotation, linguistics, interpreting, Deaf education, or comparable).
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Required
- Bilingual in ASL and English, with the ability to produce and quality-assure professional English transcriptions from ASL source content.
- Working knowledge of ASL linguistics, including familiarity with gloss conventions and non-manual markers.
- Experience producing, translating, or quality-assuring captioned, transcribed, or translated ASL content.
- Comfortable working with computer-based tools, transcription tooling, and AI-augmented workflows; willingness to learn new software.
- Attention to detail, consistency, and willingness to follow and improve standardized conventions.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with peer Specialists, Senior Specialists, the Lead, and engineering teams.
- Proficiency with standard productivity and collaboration tools (Microsoft Office, Confluence, JIRA, or equivalent).
- Positive attitude, team player, strong interpersonal communication skills, and able to work across research, engineering, and business departments.
- Preferred
- American Sign Language as a primary or native language.
- Prior captioning, subtitling, or transcription experience - particularly ASL-to-English work.
- Background as a Deaf bilingual professional or as a graduate of Gallaudet, RIT/NTID, or a comparable ASL/Deaf-focused program.
- Active and informed participant in the Deaf community, with awareness of regional and generational ASL variation.
- Certification as a Deaf Interpreter (CDI) for asynchronous transcription or translation work.
- Familiarity with annotation tools such as ELAN, CVAT, or similar platforms.
- Experience working with AI/ML teams, technology companies, or research groups that generate sign language data.
- Familiarity with PSE, SEE, and other North American signing varieties.
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements
- Able to travel up to 5% of the time.
- Able to sit/stand for long periods of time in an office or remote work environment.
- Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and related tools.
- Regular and predictable attendance required.
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Full time Benefits
- Paid Vacation Time and Paid Sick Time and Paid Holidays
- 401k 6% match... For full info follow application link.