Engineering Manager | Research Translation

Meet DeepL

DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we’ve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 100,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity.

Our goal is to become the global leader in Language AI, building products that drive better communication, foster connections, and make a real-life impact. To achieve this, we need talented individuals like you to join our exciting journey. If you’re ready to work with a dynamic team and build your career in the fast-moving AI space, DeepL is your next destination.

Meet the team behind this journey

You will lead one of the research teams that are part of the Translator track to advance the translation quality, language coverage, and capabilities of the neural networks that power our Translator product. The teams work from early-stage research ideas to the deployment of quality-assured neural network models in production.

Your responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Together with key stakeholders, you will represent the overall goals and strategic objectives of your team’s research responsibilities.

• Delivery Excellence: You will work with your team to drive initiatives and collaboration to ensure rapid progress toward delivery at the team and track level.

• Technical Leadership: You will work closely with your team to stay up-to-date on the latest developments and research opportunities to collaboratively define your team’s research agenda.

• Team Management: You will develop and maintain a cooperative research environment that makes collaboration as effective and efficient as possible.

• People Leadership: You will inspire, develop, recruit, and motivate a team of high-performing research scientists and research data engineers. This includes building 1:1 relationships with people, setting their development or improvement plans, and establishing a healthy, non-retaliatory feedback culture.

• Growth Management: You will enjoy accompanying change and finding new solutions with your team, your peers, managers, and other stakeholders, in a growing and fast-changing environment.

Qualities we look for

• You hold a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a comparable subject.

• You have a proven track record of successfully leading and scaling software engineering teams, ideally in a global, high-growth scale-up, and research-intensive environment.

• You have a solution-oriented mindset and are able to navigate through ambiguity and change effectively.

• You have hands-on experience in the following areas:

  • Software development, ideally in the context of data science, ML engineering, systems engineering, or distributed services.

  • Technical and people leadership.

  • Deep Learning (advantage but not a requirement).

• You are open to finding pragmatic and efficient ways to collaborate at the team and track level, taking into account the demands of a research-centric environment.

• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to closely collaborate with other teams across the organization.

• High level of English proficiency (knowledge of German and other languages is an advantage).

What we offer

• Diverse and internationally distributed team: joining our team means becoming part of a large, global community with people of more than 90 nationalities.

• Open communication, regular feedback: as a language-focused company, we value the importance of clear, honest communication.

• Hybrid work, flexible hours: we offer a hybrid work schedule, with team members coming into the office twice a week.

• Regular in-person team events: we bond over vibrant events that are as unique as our team.

• Monthly full-day hacking sessions: every month, we have Hack Fridays, where you can spend your time diving into a project you’re passionate about.

• 30 days of annual leave: we value your peace of mind.

• Competitive benefits: our benefits package reflects the diversity of our team.

If this role and our mission resonate with you, but you’re hesitant because you don’t check all the boxes, don’t let that hold you back. At DeepL, it’s all about the value you bring and the growth we can foster together. Apply—let’s discover your potential together. We can’t wait to meet you!

We are an equal opportunity employer

You are welcome at DeepL for who you are—we appreciate authenticity here. Our product is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all succeed, contribute, and think forward!

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