Senior AI Translation Engineer (NLP)

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve benchmarks for translation problems
• Work with NER, word alignment, automatic translation quality scoring system, and other problems
• Set up infrastructure for self-hosted solutions
• Our technologies
• ML/Backend: Python, C#, PyTorch, Transformers
• DB : MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
• Messaging : Apache Kafka
• Cloud : Amazon AWS
• Monitoring : ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
• Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far
• A global, connected team
• Be part of an AI Native Organization
• Innovating a $100 Billion industry
• Smartcat is reshaping the $100B multilingual content industry with an AI-powered platform that makes it easy for companies to create, translate, and localize global content at scale. Our pl

Requirements

• Data fluency: Owns end-to-end dataset pipelines: multi-source ingestion → cleaning/validation → scalable multilingual datasets, with versioning and auditability
• Classical NLP foundations: Understands MT/search text normalization and core matching approaches (exact/fuzzy, typo tolerance, multi-word + overlap handling, tries/Aho-Corasick/inverted index basics), and applies them to improve preprocessing and retrieval
• Practical production engineering: Can write lightweight services/jobs when needed and ship them with structured logs, monitoring/alerts, reliability basics (retries, idempotency, fallbacks), and scalability considerations; collaborates effectively with Dev/Platform

Benefits

Additional Information

About Smartcat Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive 10x to 1000x productivity gains for the world's leading enterprises. We're on the frontier of an entirely new category: Agentic AI. We enable enterprises to build high-performing hybrid workforces made up of both humans and AI agents. These AI agents aren't generic copilots. They're fully trained digital teammates that learn from your best people, your content, and your business strategy-ready to get to work from day one. Our platform combines generative AI, human-in-the-loop workflows, and a living Enterprise Skill Graph that continuously learns and improves. Whether you're launching a product globally, onboarding new hires, translating learning content, or aligning legal teams across regions, Smartcat turns knowledge into action and action into scale. Over 1,000 companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500, rely on Smartcat to bring their business to the world-instantly, accurately, and in every language. As a Series C company with consistently high year-over-year growth, we're scaling fast and investing in people who want to shape the future of work with us. Join us in unlocking global potential, one human and agent team at a time. Mission As a AI Translation Engineer, you will be at the forefront of advancing our platform's translation capabilities. Leveraging your expertise in machine learning including applied research, fine tuning, benchmarking, and inference optimization, you will deliver high-performance solutions that power critical features for our growing client base.

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