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Machine Translation Engineer

John Mueller

Contract · Job · Berlin

About the role

Have you ever wanted to build translation models that actually hold up across dialects, not just textbook sentences? That's the job here. You'll fine-tune and evaluate translation models across the language pairs our learners struggle with most, using real classroom transcripts as ground truth. This is a contract engagement scoped around a specific language expansion, with a clear deliverable and timeline.

Responsibilities

  • Fine-tune translation models for new language pairs
  • Evaluate translation quality against native-speaker review
  • Build test sets from real classroom transcript data
  • Document model limitations for the content team

Requirements

  • 3+ years working with NLP or translation models
  • Hands-on Hugging Face and PyTorch experience
  • Familiarity with low-resource language challenges
  • Comfortable working on a fixed-scope contract

Benefits

  • Remote, contract engagement
  • Competitive contract rate
  • Potential for renewal or full-time conversion

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Job Type

Contract

Level

Mid-Level

Language

English

Salary Range

$100k – $130k / year

AI Expertise

NLP & Prompt Engineering

Skills

python hugging face pytorch

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