Machine Learning Engineer — Multilingual Data
Featherless AI is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer — Multilingual Data for a remote role. Level rates it ; you can apply on Featherless AI.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this machine learning engineer role is Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions fine tuning and NLP among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a mid-level role.
- Featherless AI has 16 other open roles on Level.
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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
How we rate this
Machine Learning Engineer — Multilingual Data at Featherless AI rates 99 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- $199k
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Questions you could be asked
- Walk me through fine-tuning a model: what data did you use, and how did you check the result?
- What NLP problem have you worked on, and how did you measure whether it actually worked?
- How would you decide a model or AI system is ready to ship?
- Tell me about a time a model underperformed in production. How did you find out, and what did you change?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Fine-tuning and NLP. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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