Machine Learning Engineer / Researcher

Primary Responsibilities

Research and development projects including

• Open-sourced LLM models
• Automatic evaluation methods for entertainment MT
• Multimodal MT for manga / comics
• OCR for onomatopoeia on manga / comics
• ML-based typesetting engine for manga translation

Basic Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in machine learning, or at least 2 years of practical experience in the field.
• Experience planning and conducting research projects that result in publications in peer-reviewed journals (or equivalent).
• Experience in training machine learning models and improving task accuracy

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in CS, EE, or equivalent fields
• Experience as the first author in top conferences such as ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI
• Experience in development with advanced technologies such as LLMs and diffusion models
• Experience in application development such as web services
• Japanese language skill (JLPT N2+)

The Ideal Candidate

• Someone accustomed to continuous learning
• Able to approach problems by formulating and then verifying hypotheses
• Enjoys communicating with people from different fields and backgrounds
• Able to take ownership and handle working independently
• Strong interest in Mantra's focus areas (manga, language, machine learning)

Selection process

• Document screening (resume, detailed career and job history, portfolio)
• ~3 Interviews
• Final meeting to discuss terms of employment and compensation