Working Student (f/m/d) - Machine Translation/Natural Language Processing

Working Student (f/m/d) - Machine Translation/Natural Language Processing

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

What you'll do

• You will design and perform experiments on SAP data in the context of Neural Machine Translation and Large Language Models.
• You will support training data preparation for machine translation (data cleaning, data collection, data quality assurance).
• You will adapt open-source NLP tools (e.g., sentence segmentation, term recognition) for usage in an SAP context, including data preparation, data annotation if necessary, training, and evaluation.

What you bring

You are a currently enrolled student (f/m/d) at a university or a university of applied sciences:

• Studying preferably in the fields: Natural Language Processing, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics.
• Having the following computer skills: Java, Python (at least one of the two); experience with Linux environment and shell scripting is a plus.
• You bring experience in Natural Language Processing concepts.
• Preferably you have knowledge about machine translation, large language models, and machine learning in general. Practical experience with MT toolkits (e.g., Marian), large language models (e.g., calling OpenAI APIs, or fine-tuning a Llama model), and with NLP tools (e.g., Stanford CoreNLP/stanza, Apache UIMA, Huggingface Transformers). Practical experience with NLP-related deep learning toolkits and frameworks.
• Previous work experience that included software development tasks is highly beneficial.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; German is a plus.

Meet your team

The Machine Translation (MT) team at SAP’s Language Experience Lab develops and operates various components related to machine translation and evaluation of machine translation quality. We are looking for a highly motivated working student (f/m/d) for various implementation tasks, experiments, and evaluations around machine translation. You’ll be working as part of the MT team on well-defined projects and tasks.

Application Requirements

Your set of application documents should contain a cover letter, a resume in table form, school leaving certificates, certificate of enrollment, current university transcript of records, copies of any academic degrees already earned, and if available, references from former employers (including internships). Please also describe your experience and skills in foreign languages and computer programs/programming languages.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Requisition ID: 412557 | Work Area: Software-Research | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Part Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid