Senior Research Scientist | Model Scaling
DeepLMachine Translation company
London, United KingdomSenior
IVP
Bessemer Venture Partners
Index Ventures
ICONIQ Growth
Atomico
Teachers' Venture Growth
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Drive the next generation of translation models at DeepL.
- •We are looking for a Senior Research Scientist to own the foundational modelling decisions behind the next generation of our most capable translation models.
- •Key Responsibilities Drive the selection and evaluation of open foundation / open-weight models as the basis for our next-generation translation systems.
- •Lead model selection and general architecture decisions for scaling to hundreds of billions of parameters, including Mixture-of-Experts and other sparse or efficient designs.
- •Design multi-capability adaptation strategies using LoRA, PEFT, and related methods.
- •Own the modelling lifecycle for your work: prototyping, ablations, scaling experiments, evaluation, and delivery into production, with rigorous and reproducible evaluation.
- •Partner closely with post-training, RL/RLHF, and instruction-following specialists to integrate alignment and capability work into the base model.
- •Requirements Strong background in machine learning and natural language processing.
- •Experience with large-scale model training and deployment.
- •Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.
- •Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- •Passion for advancing the state-of-the-art in AI research.
Required skills
TensorFlowPyTorchNLPLLMsMLflowKubeflowSageMakerVertex AIONNXJAXPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearch
Domain expertise
ai
Tech stack
TensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnHugging FaceNLPLLMsMLflowKubeflowSageMakerVertex AIONNXJAXPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBCassandraSQLiteOracleSQL ServerNeo4jCockroachDBTimescaleDBInfluxDBSupabaseFirebasePrismaAWS