Senior NLP Engineer - Remote, Equity + Unlimited PTO

Zest for Tech; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully covered healthcare

Unlimited PTO

Learning & development allowance

Equity

Job summary

Zest for Tech is seeking a Senior NLP Engineer to work remotely from the United States. You will design and deploy production-grade NLP systems, influence retrieval, embeddings, and LLM-based workflows, and collaborate with product teams to scale real-world applications.

Bring 2+ years of NLP in production, strong Python, experience with Hugging Face, PyTorch, Elasticsearch, and RAG techniques. The role offers a base up to $240k plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of NLP in production environments
• Strong Python engineering skills and NLP/ML frameworks (e.g. Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Hands-on experience with information retrieval and search technologies (vector embeddings, graph databases, elasticsearch)
• Familiarity with RAG techniques and building LLM-powered applications

Responsibilities

• Enhance search and retrieval systems using advanced NLP techniques
• Build pipelines that process and analyse unstructured data - text, tables, and documents
• Design and deploy entity extraction and text classification models
• Improve context-aware systems by integrating embeddings, retrieval, and external data sources
• Experiment with and fine-tune models to improve robustness and accuracy
• Contribute to language models and agentic LLM applications tailored for real-world use

Skills

Python engineering

NLP frameworks

Information retrieval

RAG techniques

Production NLP

Tools

Hugging Face

spaCy

NLTK

PyTorch

Elasticsearch

Job description

Zest for Tech is seeking a Senior NLP Engineer to work remotely from the United States. You will design and deploy production-grade NLP systems, influence retrieval, embeddings, and LLM-based workflows, and collaborate with product teams to scale real-world applications.

Bring 2+ years of NLP in production, strong Python, experience with Hugging Face, PyTorch, Elasticsearch, and RAG techniques. The role offers a base up to $240k plus equity and comprehensive benefits.