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Machine Learning Engineer

• Build ML pipelines and backend systems
• Deploy models to production
• Optimize performance and latency
• Develop data pipelines
• Ensure scalability and reliability
• Productionize models with the AI team

Artist

• Artistic Creation: Produce 3D animations for sign language, 3D renderings, images, videos, and graphic assets, using generative AI tools to assist development and optimize the creative process.
• Technical Development: Use Blender for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering, and employ AI tools and open-source solutions such as ComfyUI, Fooocus, and Automatic1111 to create, adapt, and automate workflows, developing pipelines that increase efficiency and production quality.
• Project Collaboration: Work closely with designers, developers, and other artists to integrate AI-generated art into diverse projects, ensuring creations meet aesthetic and thematic goals.
• Research and Development: Stay up to date with the latest trends and advances in generative AI and diffusion models, exploring new techniques and tools to improve the quality and originality of produced art.
• Model Training: Perform training or fine-tuning of diffusion models to create custom artistic styles or meet specific project requirements.
• Work in close partnership with linguists, Deaf and hearing collaborators.

Tech Artist – Mid-level

General

• Lead high-impact qualitative research—both discovery and evaluative—working with Deaf users and broader communication stakeholders, including interpreters, hearing participants, accessibility leaders, prospective customers, and organizational decision-makers as needed.
• Partner with other researchers, linguists, and sign-language data analysts to evolve shared research language, participant-validated research instruments, and systems that connect qualitative insights to measurement and long-term learning.
• Design and moderate qualitative studies that prioritize ASL, are culturally fluent, and reflect Deaf users’ experience, language access, communication context, and community expectations.
• Evolve video-based research protocols, improving consent practices, privacy, storage, retention, accessibility, participant rights, and ethical handling of recordings.
• Ensure research methods and materials are culturally and linguistically accessible, accurately interpreted, and aligned with participants’ understanding and the study objectives.
• Own the qualitative components of longitudinal follow-up, including diary studies, qualitative drivers of CSAT, and participant narratives over time.
• Partner with other researchers to link qualitative insights to survey design, behavioral signals, reporting, and long-term equivalence goals.
• Help maintain a healthy ASL user panel in partnership with Research Operations, including defining recruitment inputs, engagement practices, session standards, communication norms, reciprocity, and overall participant experience quality.
• Engage with interpreter communities and subject-matter experts as needed, including establishing guidelines for when direct ASL sessions are appropriate and when interpreters, Certified Deaf Interpreters (CDIs), or expert reviewers are required.
• Synthesize research into clear, actionable insights that help teams understand what matters now, what to expect, and what requires further validation.
• Maintain research practices that are respectful, transparent, accessible, and meaningful for participants.

Machine Learning Engineer

Tech Artist – Mid-level

Qualitative Research Specialist