Viva Translate is building a future of work without language barriers.

We provide cross-language communication that helps Spanish-speaking freelancers communicate with remote teams around the world.

🚀 Mission for Software Engineer role

To build natural language processing applications for our product.

🤖 About the role

As one of our founding engineers, you will be contributing in a multitude of ways, from architecting phenomenal systems, making strategic technical decisions, and delivering high-quality products. Viva Translate is a unique opportunity to work with best-in-class engineers on very large engineering problems, but in an environment with small teams and abundant opportunities for personal impact and growth.

🙌 What you'll do

• Prototype new models, conduct evaluation experiments, and train the developed model
• Research and develop machine learning algorithms to solve problems in NLP
• Define software engineering tasks, oversee production, and implement features
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product & Design on NLP and ML related tasks
• Bring NLP perspective to Engineering, Product Design, and Strategy discussions
• Build and deploy machine learning models to end-users and run experiments (e.g. domain-specific machine translation, quality estimation models, paraphrase)
• Build back-end infrastructure and data pipelines (e.g. active learning)
• Take your product understanding and machine learning to develop techniques to improve translation quality