AI Researcher – Multilingual Data

The role

You will research and execute data sourcing, curation, evaluation, and training strategies for multilingual and low-resource languages. You will build and maintain evaluation benchmarks and translate research into production systems.

What you will do

• Design and execute research on multilingual datasets
• Develop strategies for low-resource and long-tail languages
• Research and improve cross-lingual transfer, alignment, and robustness in large language models
• Build and maintain evaluation benchmarks for multilingual performance
• Collaborate with engineers and researchers on training pipelines and model architecture decisions
• Publish research at top venues
• Translate research insights into practical improvements in production models

Required qualifications

• Strong background in NLP / ML research, with a focus on multilingual or cross-lingual modeling
• Publication record at respected conferences or journals (ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.)
• Experience working with large-scale text datasets across multiple languages
• Solid understanding of tokenization and vocabulary design for multilingual models
• Solid understanding of data quality metrics, filtering, and dataset bias
• Solid understanding of transfer learning and multilingual representation learning
• Comfortable prototyping in Python with modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, etc.)
• Ability to operate independently and ship research in a startup pace environment

Nice to have

• Experience with low-resource languages or non-Latin scripts
• Open-source contributions in NLP or data tooling
• Experience training or evaluating large language models
• Familiarity with multilingual benchmarks (e.g., XTREME, FLORES, TyDi QA)

Benefits

• Real ownership over research direction and impact
• A team that values papers and production
• Access to meaningful scale: large datasets, modern infrastructure, and fast iteration
• Competitive compensation
• Meaningful equity at an early stage

About the company

featherlessai is a fast-moving startup.