Senior Linguistic Engineer

Summary

Join Smartling's LanguageAI team as a Senior Linguistic Engineer! We're a small, dynamic team building smart systems for our translation platform. You'll design next-generation models for translation generation and quality assessment, stay current on research, and collaborate with product and engineering teams. This role requires 10+ years of experience in linguistic engineering or related fields, expertise in linguistics, and proficiency in Python and data analysis. We offer a remote-first work environment, competitive compensation, flexible PTO, and a fun, supportive culture.

Requirements

• 10+ years of linguistic engineering, computational linguistics, and / or language-based data science experience
• Expert level knowledge of general linguistics
• Created modern translation quality analysis systems
• Proficiency in data analysis and statistical methodologies
• Proficiency in Python
• Knowledge of data science techniques (sampling, feature engineering, modeling, etc)
• Knowledge of state-of-the-art NLP techniques
• Basic understanding of Notebooks and Terminals

Responsibilities

• Create assets, models and pipelines for machine learning models
• Research and understand linguistic characteristics of various locales and languages around the world
• Understanding current metrics and recommending additional data points over linguistic data
• Pre-processing data via Python
• Feature engineering and model construction
• Model training and validation via various Python libraries
• Evaluating ML models once deployed
• Training with the team to help with best practices and knowledge sharing
• Engineer prompts, with and without fine-tuning, to work with state-of-the-art LLMs in the industry to transform and evaluate text for translation tasks
• Research novel industry and academia methodologies/approaches to improve the translation experience & improve translation quality at Smartling
• File patents together with the team for the research projects that proved successful
• Collaborate with product/engineering team to build internal tooling for the end-to-end processes
• Advise other teams on the feasibility and practicality of AI/ML features to add to the Smartling platform

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual or fluent in multiple languages
• Experience being a translator or working in the translation industry
• Experience with SQL and / or other query languages
• Experience with Looker and / or other BI tools
• Cloud stack experience: SageMaker, Athena, Spark, S3, etc

Benefits

• Freedom 🏡- we are remote-first
• Growth - an opportunity to learn and advance your career
• Wealth 💰 - we offer a competitive compensation
• Wellness - location-based and contract-based benefits
• Balance - flexible PTO
• Culture 🤝- an energetic, value-driven, and fun culture and team spirit
• Bonus - employee referral programs and Apple equipment