Machine Learning Researcher, Keywords Studios
Technical & creative services provider
Job no longer available
Technical & creative services provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To use the passion for games, technology, and media to create a global services platform for video games.
Role
Who you are
- In this role you should be a team player with a keen eye for detail and problem-solving skills
- If you also have experience in object-oriented design, AWS, Cloud based services and popular coding languages (e.g. PHP, Python, Perl, JQUERY, JavaScript), we would like to meet you
- Phd Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Familiarity with Machine Translation systems and Large Language Models
- Proven experience as a software developer/engineer – 3 – 5 years’ experience
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
- Working knowledge of at least two of the following coding languages and frameworks – PHP, C#, C++, Python, PERL, JavaScript, JQUERY, NODE.JS, and MS Visual Basic, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS etc.), JIRA, Confluence
- Excellent communication skills with attention to detail
- Video Gaming experience is a bonus
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Machine learning Researcher to work as part of a team to build and implement cloud-based enterprise machine translations solutions
- You will work with other developers and product managers throughout the software development life cycle working on cloud-based technologies that are built on Amazon Web Services
- Conduct research to advance the field of machine translation
- Develop and refine machine translation models and algorithms
- Gather and curate large datasets for training and evaluating MT models
- Clean, preprocess, and annotate text data to make it suitable for training
- Design and implement neural network architectures for machine translation
- Train machine translation models using various techniques, such as sequence-to-sequence models and transformer models
- Innovate and experiment with novel techniques to improve translation quality and efficiency
- Work on reducing common translation errors and challenges, like idiomatic expressions and rare languages
- Develop and apply evaluation metrics to assess the quality of machine-translated text
- Compare and benchmark different models using established evaluation protocols
- Adapt machine translation models to specific domains (e.g., Games, Player Support) to enhance translation accuracy within those contexts
- Fine-tune pre-trained models on specific tasks or languages to achieve better performance in targeted scenarios
- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in the field of machine translation by reading research papers and attending conferences
- Write research papers detailing new findings, techniques, and improvements
- Present research findings at conferences, workshops, and seminars
Our take
Keywords Studios is an international technical service provider to the global video games industry and beyond. The company works as an external development partner for its users, enabling leading content creators and publishers to leverage Keywords' expertise and capacity across the lifecycle of interactive content. In so doing the company enables its clients who are operating in complex and fast-moving environments to remain lean and agile, and to focus on creating and monetising the most engaging experiences.
The company has over 70 studios in 26 countries across the globe. Providing integrated art production, engineering, audio services, testing, localisation, and player support services in more than 50 languages and 16 game platforms.
With a strong market position, Keywords provides services to nearly all of the prominent gaming companies, including T2, EA, Ubisoft, and Square Enix. Keywords had also been on an acquisition spree, with its total acquisition count sitting at 60 before it was acquired by private equity firm EQT in 2024.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- WFH Opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- Bonus Schemes
- And More (Varies by Location)
Company HQ
Carmanhall And Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland
Leadership
Bertrand Bodson
(CEO)Current Non-Executive Director at Tesco and Wolters Kluwer. Co-Founder & former CEO of Bragster.com (Acquired by Guinness World Records). Previous Chief Digital & CMO at Sainsbury's, and Non-Executive Director of Electrocomponents.
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