AI Engineer - NLP Specialist

Placements24; Bloemfontein; Hybrid; ZAR 850,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Growth opportunities

Collaborative team

Training in AI

Job summary

Placements24 in Bloemfontein is seeking an AI Engineer focused on NLP to build, deploy, and scale language models for our products. You will work with large text datasets and cutting-edge techniques to enable language understanding and generation.

You will collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver language-based features and drive business opportunities in a dynamic, innovation-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in CS or Computational Linguistics with an NLP focus.
• 3+ years of professional experience in NLP.
• Strong Python programming and NLP libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Transformers).
• Proficiency with deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering for text, and evaluation.
• Solid understanding of language modeling and sequence-to-sequence models.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement advanced NLP models for tasks such as text classification, sentiment analysis, and NER.
• Process and analyze large volumes of unstructured text data.
• Fine-tune and deploy pre-trained language models for specific applications.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate NLP into production systems.
• Evaluate model performance and iterate to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Stay updated on latest NLP and AI research.

Skills

Python programming

NLP libraries

Deep learning

Data preprocessing

Model evaluation

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/Computational Linguistics

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

About the Role

Our client is seeking a specialized AI Engineer with a focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP) to join their innovative team in Bloemfontein. You will be responsible for developing and deploying advanced NLP models and solutions that enable our products to understand, interpret, and generate human language. This role involves working with large text datasets, experimenting with state-of-the-art NLP techniques, and integrating these capabilities into our core platform. You will collaborate closely with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver intelligent features that enhance user experience and unlock new business opportunities. Your expertise will be crucial in shaping the language-based intelligence of our offerings.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement advanced NLP models for tasks such as text classification, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and machine translation.
• Process and analyze large volumes of unstructured text data.
• Fine-tune and deploy pre-trained language models (e.g., BERT, GPT) for specific applications.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate NLP solutions into production systems.
• Evaluate model performance and iterate on solutions to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Stay updated on the latest research and advancements in the field of NLP and AI.

Requirements

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field with an NLP focus.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Natural Language Processing.
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with NLP libraries (e.g., NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Proficiency with deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering for text data, and model evaluation.
• Solid understanding of language modeling, text representation, and sequence-to-sequence models.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance incentives.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
• Opportunities for professional growth and training in cutting-edge AI fields.
• Collaborative work environment in Bloemfontein.
• Exposure to challenging and impactful NLP projects.