Remote NLP Engineer for Production Document Processing

Avanti Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanti Recruitment is working with a growing SaaS technology company to recruit a Mid-Level NLP Engineer to join a specialist team building and supporting production NLP and document-processing technology. This is a hands‑on engineering role focused on improving how a live software platform extracts and processes information from complex documents.

You will work closely with a Senior NLP Specialist, initially supporting the existing production environment and gradually taking ownership of larger

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Python experience.
• Hands-on Natural Language Processing experience.
• Experience with document extraction or unstructured text.
• Experience working on live production software.
• Good understanding of debugging, testing and release processes.
• Experience with NLP tools such as spaCy, NLTK, NER or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining Python-based NLP and document-processing services.
• Extracting and processing information from Word documents, PDFs and unstructured text.
• Working with NLP techniques such as information extraction, classification, pattern matching and entity extraction.
• Investigating and resolving issues in a live production environment.
• Debugging, testing and releasing fixes.
• Contributing to new document-intelligence functionality.
• Working with modern LLM technology alongside more traditional NLP approaches.

Skills

Python

NLP

Document processing

Production software

Debugging & testing

Tools

spaCy

NLTK

NER

AWS

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

OCR

Job description

Avanti Recruitment is working with a growing SaaS technology company to recruit a Mid-Level NLP Engineer to join a specialist team building and supporting production NLP and document-processing technology. This is a hands‑on engineering role focused on improving how a live software platform extracts and processes information from complex documents.

You will work closely with a Senior NLP Specialist, initially supporting the existing production environment and gradually taking ownership of larger