Applied Research Engineer, Machine Translation

Requirements

• Strong programming and software engineering skills (Python, C++, or equivalent)
• Experience building and optimizing machine translation or related sequence-to-sequence systems
• Practical knowledge of LLM post-training techniques
• Experience with large-scale data processing frameworks and synthetic data generation pipelines
• Strong production mindset for customer-facing deployment
• Ability to manage complex processes in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills and collaborative teamwork approach
• Deep motivation to deliver impactful products

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Experience in applied machine learning or software engineering
• Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks and large-scale model training
• Knowledge of reward modeling, preference data collection, or RL-based fine-tuning
• Experience in distributed and cloud computing
• Experience with speech translation or multimodal models

What You'll Be Doing

• Applying and advancing training paradigms to improve translation quality
• Owning and improving model development pipelines
• Shipping models to reach millions of users with focus on quality and efficiency

Perks and Benefits

• Playing a critical part in human-computer interaction revolution
• Building groundbreaking technology for language barrier connections
• Opportunity to work at the cutting edge of research and product impact