AI/ML Engineer-NLP, Machine Translation (W2 only)

AI/ML Engineer - Machine Translation, NLP & Generative AI

6 months (Contract-to-Hire)

$50 - $52 per hour (W2 only)

Must-have competencies

• Strong Python programming and production software engineering.
• Hands-on NLP, deep learning, and sequence-to-sequence architectures.
• Direct experience with machine translation models, translation APIs, or localization pipelines.
• LLMs, prompt engineering, and model fine-tuning.
• Google understanding of Cloud Vertex AI or comparable cloud ML platforms.
• Some knowledge of STT/TTS or voice AI integration.
• Translation glossaries, terminology management, or retail-domain localization (nice-to-have).
• Understanding of BLEU, COMET, and human-in-the-loop translation evaluation.

Useful additional experience (Nice-to-Have):

• Transformer-based models, such as MarianMT, mBART, or NLLB.
• Translation platforms or APIs, such as Google Cloud Translation, Amazon Translate, or Azure AI Translator.
• Containerization, scalable API services, latency optimization, and observability.