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(e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).\nCapabilities\nUnder supervision, research and develops technically complex AI efforts\nPerforms research, design, development, and implementation activities for technically complex AI efforts under the routine direction of more senior technical staff \nWith minimal supervision, resolves complex AI technical problems by applying advanced principles and Research and Development (R&D) techniques Resolves complex AI technical problems by applying advanced principles and Research and Development (R&D) techniques \nResolves highly complex AI business and managerial problems. \nRequired Qualifications\nTS/SCI with agency appropriate poly\nEleven (11) years' experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or other Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)\n\nRequired Technical Skills\nComfortable with the research environment\n\nKnowledge of and experience with current Machine Learning and Machine Translation technologies\n\nUnderstanding of the encoder/decoder transformer architecture\n\nExperience working with modern text processing pipelines\n\nUnderstanding of text encoding vectors\n\nUnderstanding of the differences between transformer architectures (like Marian) and Large Language Models.\n\nBe able to explain the strengths and weaknesses of these two related architectures for Machine Translation\n\nAbility to evaluate new tools and techniques related to MT\n\nAbility to propose and implement enhancements to MT tools and processing flows\n\nExperience working with Docker, defining, building, and testing containers for deployment.\n\nExperienced in Python, C/C++\n\nThe Benefits Package\n Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. 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