Senior NLP Engineer - On-Site AI Innovator in Queenstown

Placements24; Queenstown; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance bonuses

Medical aid

Retirement fund

Ample vacation time

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior NLP Engineer to join our Queenstown team. You will design, implement, and optimize advanced NLP models for real-world data, including text classification, sentiment analysis, and NER, with production-ready pipelines.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers, stay abreast of the latest language AI developments, and contribute to deploying scalable NLP solutions. A strong research background and hands-on coding experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field with a specialization in NLP.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in NLP research and development.
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Transformers, Gensim).
• Strong understanding of ML, DL, and statistical modeling for NLP.
• Experience with text preprocessing and representation learning.
• Experience deploying NLP models into production.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy advanced NLP models and algorithms.
• Process and analyze large volumes of unstructured text data.
• Implement and fine-tune state-of-the-art NLP architectures (Transformers, LSTMs).
• Develop features and integrate NLP capabilities into production applications.
• Evaluate and benchmark NLP model performance.
• Collaborate with data scientists and software engineers on NLP projects.
• Stay current with the latest NLP research and language tech.
• Contribute to team growth through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Document models, processes, and findings clearly.

Skills

Python programming

NLP research

Machine learning

Deep learning

Text preprocessing

Team collaboration

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/Computational Linguistics or related

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

Gensim

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior NLP Engineer to join our Queenstown team. You will design, implement, and optimize advanced NLP models for real-world data, including text classification, sentiment analysis, and NER, with production-ready pipelines.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers, stay abreast of the latest language AI developments, and contribute to deploying scalable NLP solutions. A strong research background and hands-on coding experience are essential.