NLP AI Specialist — Text Analytics & Language Generation

Placements24; Queenstown; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Professional development

Cutting-edge AI tools

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an experienced AI NLP Specialist to join its Queenstown team. You will develop, train, and deploy advanced NLP solutions that help machines understand and generate human language, across text analysis, sentiment, chatbots, translation, and information extraction.

You will collaborate with software engineers to integrate NLP capabilities into applications, while designing robust models and pipelines. A strong background in ML for NLP and data preprocessing is essential.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in CS, Computational Linguistics, or related field.
• 3+ years hands-on NLP development and research.
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Transformers).
• Strong understanding of deep learning architectures for NLP (RNNs, LSTMs, Transformers).
• Experience with data preprocessing techniques for text data.

Responsibilities

• Develop, train, and deploy NLP models for text classification, entity recognition, and summarization.
• Design and implement algorithms for sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and language generation.
• Work with large text datasets: cleaning, preprocessing, feature engineering.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate NLP into applications.
• Evaluate and fine-tune NLP models to improve accuracy and performance.

Skills

Python programming

NLP expertise

Deep learning for NLP

Data preprocessing

Education

Master's or PhD in Computer Science / Computational Linguistics

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Transformers

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an experienced AI NLP Specialist to join its Queenstown team. You will develop, train, and deploy advanced NLP solutions that help machines understand and generate human language, across text analysis, sentiment, chatbots, translation, and information extraction.

You will collaborate with software engineers to integrate NLP capabilities into applications, while designing robust models and pipelines. A strong background in ML for NLP and data preprocessing is essential.