Neural Machine Translation Consultant Full Time on the ground

Sony Research India is driving cutting-edge research and development in various locations around the globe, including laboratories in Japan, the United States, Europe, and Asia. We endeavor to create new technology, products, and services while sustaining Sony Group’s diverse businesses in electronics, entertainment, and financial fields. For our research centre to blaze a trail in the latest technologies, we seek to foster the growth of a diverse pool of research and engineering talent and create a technology talent bank to drive research excellence worldwide. Sony Research India is offering outstanding career opportunities around frontline technologies such as AI and data analytics.

What we are looking for:
We are looking for a highly motivated research consultant who can assist in our research and development efforts on multilingual translation, domain-specific evaluation, and LLM-based modelling. The ideal candidate should have prior experience in Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning(Optional).

Key Responsibilities:
include collaborating closely with research scientists and other team members to explore and advance Neural Machine Translation (NMT) research within the scope of the project, like translation of entertainment domain content in various Indian and foreign languages. Interest or prior exposure to at least one of the following is desirable:
Multilingual LLM probing and representation analysis
Domain -specific NMT
Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures
Unsupervised or low-resource NMT

Work Location:
Remote within India

Duration of the paid one year contract:
The annual paid direct contractual tenure is extendable.
Ideally this position will start from third week November 2025.
The working hours are from 9:00 to 18:00 (Monday to Friday) full-time.

Essential Education:
Ph.D. or Masters in Computer Science background or Bachelor’s with hands-on experience on Python with an applications in Language Processing.

Skills required:

Essential Skills:
Background on Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning
Natural Language Processing
Excellent coding skills, especially in Python and PyTorch
Knowledge of the state-of-the-arts in LLM, Foundation Models, Neural Machine Translation

Good to have Skills:
One year work experience in NLP/Indian Language Machine Translation projects within an organization.
Strong mathematical aptitude
Research papers in top-tier conferences like ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACL, etc.

Our Values:

Dreams & Curiosity: Pioneer the future with dreams and curiosity.
Diversity: Pursue the creation of the very best by harnessing diversity and varying viewpoints.
Integrity & Sincerity: Earn the trust for Sony brand through ethical and responsible conduct.
Sustainability: Fulfil our stakeholder responsibilities through disciplined business practices.

Sony Research India is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices, policies and procedures and to ensuring that no worker or potential worker will receive less favourable treatment due to any characteristic protected under applicable local laws.

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