Research Scientist conducting applied research on healthcare data at Phare using AI technologies. Designing experiments and collaborating with MLOps to create measurable impact in the healthcare industry.
About the role
- Staff Research Scientist within DeepL's Language AI teams, driving scientific innovation in text translation products. Leading complex research efforts and collaborating closely with engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead hands-on research and development of our core text translation products.
- Drive innovation on methods relevant to achieving perfect translation quality as well as translation quality estimation and evaluation.
- Design, train, and optimize large-scale, LLM-based translation models for multilingual accuracy, context awareness, robustness, and varying latency demands.
- Own the full lifecycle of model delivery: prototyping, ablations, training, evaluation, optimization, and production deployment.
- Work closely with engineering teams to integrate models into real-time systems, ensuring reliability, uptime, and quality at scale.
- Drive improvements in inference efficiency, model serving, voice UX, and robustness to real-world acoustic conditions.
- Establish strong practices for evaluation, reproducibility, monitoring, and continuous model improvement in production.
- Mentor researchers and engineers, promote hands-on collaboration, and raise the bar for model quality and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in foundations and application of machine translation.
- A hands-on builder who enjoys training models, running experiments, debugging pipelines, and integrating ML systems into production.
- Experience shipping ML models to production, maintaining them at scale, and working with engineers on deployment, monitoring, and serving.
- Ability to lead complex research efforts while staying grounded in product impact, user experience, and real-world performance.
- Strong coding and experimentation skills (Python, PyTorch/JAX, audio processing libraries).
- Ability to communicate clearly, collaborate across teams, and align research work with product and engineering priorities.
- Proven experience mentoring others and elevating technical quality across a fast-moving, applied research team.
Benefits
- Diverse and internationally distributed team: joining our team means becoming part of a large, global community with people of more than 90 nationalities.
- Open communication, regular feedback: as a language-focused company, we value the importance of clear, honest communication.
- Hybrid work, flexible hours: we offer a hybrid work schedule, with team members coming into the office twice a week.
- Virtual Shares - An ownership mindset in every role.
- Regular in-person team events: we bond over vibrant events that are unique as our team.
- Monthly full-day hacking sessions: every month, we have Hack Fridays, where you can dive into a project you're passionate about.
- 30 days of annual leave: we value your peace of mind. With 30 days off and access to mental health resources.
- Competitive benefits: we have crafted it to reflect the diversity of our team and tailored it to align with your unique location.
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