Staff Research Scientist | Language AI at DeepL

📋 Description

• Lead hands-on research and development for core text translation.
• Innovate translation quality estimation and evaluation methods.
• Design and train large-scale LLM-based translation models.
• Own full lifecycle: prototyping, training, eval, and deployment.
• Collaborate with engineers to deploy models in real-time systems.
• Improve inference efficiency and robustness to acoustics.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in machine translation foundations and applications.
• Hands-on builder who trains models, runs experiments, and pipelines.
• Experience shipping ML models to production and scaling deployments.
• Able to lead research while delivering product impact.
• Strong coding and experimentation: Python, PyTorch/JAX, audio libs.
• Mentoring and elevating technical quality in fast teams.

🎁 Benefits

• Hybrid work with flexible hours across locations.
• Virtual Shares and ownership in DeepL growth.
• Regular in-person events and monthly hack Fridays.
• 30 days annual leave plus mental health resources.
• Diverse international team with 90+ nationalities.
• Competitive location-tailored benefits.