Research Scientist

What you can expect 

 As a Research Scientist working in the machine translation team, you have the opportunity to transform your ideas into products, solve cutting-edge AI and MT problems, and deploy models that constantly advance state of the art. Your role is pivotal to breaking the language barriers inside Zoom products and creating an impact in society, where billions of users will be using the final products for which the models were deployed and recommended by you.  

About the Team

Zoom is an award-winning workplace. Our culture focuses on delivering happiness, our commitment to transparency, and the tangible benefits we provide our employees and our customers.

The role will entail working alongside a friendly team of experienced researchers to develop machine translation and multilingual AI models and deploy them to our online video conference products.

What we’re looking for

• Possess a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, or a related field

• Depth and breadth in state-of-the-art approaches in machine translation.

• Experience with Deep Learning for NLP.

• Strong coding skills in Python, C/C++, or Java.

• Hands-on experience in machine learning model deployment and toolkits (TensorFlow, PyTorch).

• Proven mathematical knowledge; understanding of machine learning, and statistics.

• Recent publications in top-tier conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, ICML, etc.

Ways of Working
Our structured hybrid approach is centered around our offices and remote work environments. The work style of each role, Hybrid, Remote, or In-Person is indicated in the job description/posting.

Benefits
As part of our award-winning workplace culture and commitment to delivering happiness, our benefits program offers a variety of perks, benefits, and options to help employees maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and financial health; support work-life balance; and contribute to their community in meaningful ways. Click Learn for more information.

About Us
Zoomies help people stay connected so they can get more done together. We set out to build the best collaboration platform for the enterprise, and today help people communicate better with products like Zoom Contact Center, Zoom Phone, Zoom Events, Zoom Apps, Zoom Rooms, and Zoom Webinars.
We’re problem-solvers, working at a fast pace to design solutions with our customers and users in mind. Here, you’ll work across teams to deliver impactful projects that are changing the way people communicate and enjoy opportunities to advance your career in a diverse, inclusive environment.

Our Commitment​
We believe that the unique contributions of all Zoomies is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. Zoom is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives including qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records and any qualified applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in accordance with the law.

If you need assistance navigating the interview process due to a medical disability, please submit an Accommodations Request Form and someone from our team will reach out soon. This form is solely for applicants who require an accommodation due to a qualifying medical disability. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed.