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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.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Questions you could be asked

  1. Walk me through fine-tuning a model: what data did you use, and how did you check the result?
  2. What NLP problem have you worked on, and how did you measure whether it actually worked?
  3. How would you decide a model or AI system is ready to ship?
  4. Tell me about a time a model underperformed in production. How did you find out, and what did you change?

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