Jr. Research Enablement Engineer

Smartling

16h•$75,000 - $85,000•Remote

About The Position

Smartling was founded 16 years ago to make localization and translation seamless. Today, Smartling is profitable and backed by Battery Ventures, a global technology-focused investment firm, supporting company growth and expanding our market share and leadership position. We are the only cloud-based, AI-enabled translation platform that combines a Neural Machine Translation Hub and professional language services, empowering teams to collaborate in real-time to create experiences customers love. Smartling is looking for a creative and passionate Junior Research Enablement Engineer based remotely in the United States to work on internal tools to support the efforts of our LanguageAI research team. You will be working on a multi-disciplinary team to produce and support highly-scalable services that deliver the best-in-class experiences for team members. You will also have the opportunity to learn and grow from the various disciplines by taking on data and machine learning tasks that deliver high-impact results for the company. You will be joining an existing team researching, developing, and maintaining machine learning functionality in Smartling's translation management application that allows our clients and professional translators to manage the localization process for their websites and documents in an agile fashion. This includes classical machine learning methodologies and NLP technologies through LLM-based technologies. Our Engineering Processes & Beliefs: TDD - Test Driven Development Continuous Deployment - multiple times daily SOA - Service Oriented Architecture and APIs Full test automation - we have no QA team DevOps is not a team, it is a culture

Requirements

Fluency in Python
Experience with Java or Kotlin
Fundamental or better understanding of probability and statistics
Know your way around a relational database
Familiarity with asynchronous patterns and messaging technologies
Familiarity with Design Patterns and making scalable stable systems
Understanding of distributed computing principles and algorithms
Strong communication and documentation skills
BS+ degree in computer science or equivalent experience
A home office setup conducive for working remotely, and the ability to work effectively as a remote team member

Nice To Haves

Experience with Data Science tasks
Experience with Rust and other languages
Experience with NoSQL databases and large data sets
Experience with NLP techniques
Experience with LLM fine-tuning and prompt engineering
Multilingual

Responsibilities

Architect, design, implement and maintain applications, notebooks, frameworks, scripts, and infrastructure components
Work with data to perform, implement, and deploy various machine learning oriented services, frameworks, and scripts
Conduct architecture and code reviews
Design and implement testing strategies to maximize product quality
Help conduct research with other members of the team