Machine Learning Engineer

Featherlessai

Completely RemoteFull TimeInformation Technology
Posted 4 days ago

Job description

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain large-scale multilingual datasets across high- and low-resource languages
  • Develop data pipelines for collection, cleaning, normalization, deduplication, and labeling
  • Implement quality filters using statistical, heuristic, and model-based methods
  • Work with researchers to define language coverage, benchmarks, and evaluation metrics
  • Analyze dataset bias, coverage gaps, and failure modes across regions and scripts
  • Support training, fine-tuning, and distillation workflows with high-quality multilingual data
  • Continuously iterate on datasets based on model performance and real-world usage

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience as an ML Engineer, Applied Scientist, or similar role
  • Strong experience working with multilingual or non-English datasets
  • Solid understanding of NLP fundamentals (tokenization, embeddings, language modeling)
  • Experience building scalable data pipelines (Python, Spark, Ray, or similar)
  • Familiarity with Unicode, scripts, tokenization challenges, and language-specific quirks
  • Ability to collaborate with researchers and translate research needs into production systems

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with low-resource languages or multilingual benchmarks (e.g. FLORES, XTREME)
  • Exposure to LLM training, fine-tuning, or distillation
  • Linguistics background or experience working with native language experts
  • Contributions to open-source datasets or ML tooling
  • Experience with data quality evaluation at scale

About the Company

We are a high-caliber team building models used globally, focusing on linguistic diversity and model generalization beyond English-speaking markets.

Skills & tools

PythonNLPMachine Learning

What the team is looking for

Use this list as a quick fit check before you apply.

  1. 013+ years ML Engineer experience
  2. 02Multilingual dataset experience
  3. 03NLP fundamentals
  4. 04Scalable data pipelines
  5. 05Python, Spark, or Ray
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