Machine Learning Engineer — Multilingual Data

Featherless AI

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Remote (world) Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 18, 2026 Last posted March 18, 2026
Job description

We’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to own and scale our multilingual data pipeline—from sourcing and curation to evaluation and continuous improvement. You’ll work closely with researchers and infra engineers to ensure our models perform robustly across languages, scripts, and cultural contexts.

This role sits at the intersection of data, research, and production ML and is ideal for someone who cares deeply about data quality, linguistic diversity, and model generalization beyond English.

What You’ll Do

  • 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

What We’re Looking For

  • 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

  • Comfort collaborating with researchers and translating research needs into production systems

Nice to Have

  • 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

Why Join

  • Real ownership over a core differentiator of the product

  • Work on models used globally, not just in English-speaking markets

  • Small, high-caliber team with deep ML and systems experience

  • Competitive compensation + meaningful equity at Series A stage

About this role

Summary

Develop multilingual data pipelines and support model training and evaluation processes.

Job title

Machine Learning Engineer — Multilingual Data

Experience level

3+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

remote (world), open to global candidates

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

pythonscikit-learnsparkunicodenlp

Preferred skills

low-resource languagesllmlinguisticsopen-source datasetsdata quality evaluation

Specializations

machine learningnlpdata pipelinesmultilingual
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

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Remote