Software Developer for NLP Solutions - Product Localization (AI)

Location: Livonia, Michigan, United States; hybrid work between home and the office

Salary: $90,000–$162,000 annually, plus a target incentive of 3–5% of base salary.

Company

hirify.global Digital Industries Software provides industrial software for the design, simulation, manufacture, and product lifecycle management of products across multiple industries.

What you will do

• Develop, evaluate, deploy, and document AI capabilities, applications, agents, and custom RAG data-retrieval systems.
• Build chatbots, virtual assistants, question-answering systems, web applications, text-summarization algorithms, and advanced search solutions.
• Design custom data pipelines and workflows supporting machine translation, translation-quality prediction, terminology management, glossary creation, consistency checks, and language processing.
• Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, localization specialists, and localization teams to integrate AI solutions into products and automate translation processes.
• Research NLP and machine-learning advances, propose solutions to language-processing challenges, and participate in agile Scrum ceremonies.
• Evaluate AI models, agents, data effectiveness, and user feedback; optimize performance and document and present methodologies and results.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of professional experience developing applications and solutions, including applications hosted on or connected to cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
• Experience developing multilingual projects and handling language-specific challenges; experience implementing custom AI and RAG systems.
• Experience building and optimizing vector databases, implementing and fine-tuning embedding models, creating custom chunking strategies, and developing document-preprocessing pipelines.
• Experience developing context-aware prompt-engineering solutions and production-grade RAG systems integrated with enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience optimizing retrieval performance and relevance scoring, creating custom RAG evaluation metrics, and managing prompt context windows.
• Knowledge of NLP, NLU, and NLG techniques; experience with API development and microservices architecture.
• Understanding of enterprise security requirements for AI systems, familiarity with MLOps practices and deployment pipelines, and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in C++, Java, Python, or similar programming languages; familiarity with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and related AI services; experience with generative AI, LLMs, agentic AI, and vector databases.
• Strong problem-solving, attention-to-detail, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Background in software localization or familiarity with localization processes.
• Relevant machine-learning or NLP certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexibility to work from home and the office at different times.
• Benefits and rewards provided by a global industrial software company.
• Work in an organization with more than 377,000 employees across over 200 countries.
• Commitment to equality, diversity, and employment decisions based on qualifications, merit, and business need.