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Machine Learning Engineer (Real-Time Speech Translation)

LILT Boston, MA

Boston, MA

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$120k - $161k/yr Full time Backend Developer Ai Ml Artificial Intelligence

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Job Description

LILT is building a live translation product, and this role focuses on the real-time speech translation backend. You will own the end-to-end path from live audio input to translated output, combining streaming speech recognition and adaptive machine translation in a low-latency system deployed on GPU Kubernetes infrastructure.

What you’ll do

Build and run services that support high-throughput, real-time audio and text streaming.
Own signal processing, session lifecycle management, and concurrency to keep the system stable under load.
Integrate and serve streaming speech recognition and machine translation models, working with research teams to meet latency budgets.
Develop model-driven confidence scoring and routing logic for human intervention when needed.
Broadcast real-time updates and corrections to end users.
Architect and scale production ML infrastructure on GPU-accelerated Kubernetes, including Ray Serve deployments.
Implement batching, load balancing, and autoscaling strategies to maintain both performance and cost efficiency.
Set up instrumentation to measure real-time performance and establish production-grade observability.
Identify bottlenecks, optimize end-to-end throughput, and reduce end-to-end latency to meet production standards.
Define technical contracts and interfaces for audio ingestion and downstream service integrations.
Collaborate with frontend and platform engineering teams to maintain robust integration points.
Drive cross-team alignment through clear API interfaces and technical contracts across engineering and product teams.

Key requirements

BS or MS in Computer Science (or related) or equivalent practical experience.
3+ years building production backend or ML serving systems in Python, with strong async skills (asyncio).
Hands-on experience with real-time streaming transport such as WebSocket or gRPC bidirectional streaming, including session state, backpressure, and connection lifecycle handling.
Experience serving ML models on GPUs in production using Ray Serve, Triton, vLLM, or similar, along with Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience integrating speech or NLP models into production systems, ideally streaming ASR with partial hypotheses, endpointing, and VAD.
A latency-engineering mindset: you have profiled, instrumented, and optimized real-time or low-latency systems and can reason using per-stage budgets.
Ability to use AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, or similar) with strong fundamentals: you can debug, review, and reason about every line and know when not to trust generated output.
US citizenship and residence in the United States (contract requirement).

Technologies

Python, asyncio, WebSocket, gRPC
Ray Serve, Triton, vLLM
Docker, Kubernetes
Claude Code, Codex
COMET, CometKiwi
RabbitMQ
Datadog, Prometheus
WebRTC, SFU
LiveKit Agents, Pipecat

Location and eligibility

Boston, MA (onsite)
Requires US citizenship and residence in the United States.
Preferred locations include Washington, D.C.; Boston, MA; and Indianapolis, IN (East Coast / ET timezone preferred).

Compensation

USD 120,000 - 161,434 per yearly.

Preferred qualifications

Ray Serve experience, including streaming responses and model multiplexing.
Familiarity with simultaneous or incremental MT concepts (retranslation, prefix stability, wait-k policies).
Machine translation quality estimation in the COMET/CometKiwi class, or other production confidence estimation.
Message brokers for real-time fan-out and state distribution (RabbitMQ or similar).
Streaming text-to-speech integration and time-to-first-audio optimization.
WebRTC and SFU concepts, or voice pipeline frameworks such as LiveKit Agents or Pipecat.
Handling CJK and other non-Latin text in NLP pipelines (Japanese, Korean, and English are first languages).
Observability tooling for production ML systems (Datadog, Prometheus).

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