Hybrid Senior NLP Engineer: Dialogue Systems

Placements24; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental plan

Vision plan

Hybrid work setup

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Placements24 in Pretoria is seeking a Senior NLP Engineer specializing in Dialogue Systems to design, develop, and deploy advanced conversational AI solutions across platforms. This role blends in-office collaboration in Pretoria with remote work flexibility to support our AI & Emerging Technologies division.

You will lead the development of robust NLP models, mentor junior engineers, and work with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, production-ready dialogue systems.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in CS, computational linguistics, AI, or related field.
• 4+ years in NLP with emphasis on dialogue systems.
• Proficiency in Python and DL frameworks.
• Experience with NLP libraries and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize state-of-the-art NLP models for tasks like intent recognition, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, and dialogue state tracking.
• Develop and deploy robust dialogue management systems for chatbots, virtual assistants, and other conversational AI applications.
• Implement and fine-tune large language models for dialogue generation and understanding.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements and integrate NLP solutions.
• Conduct extensive testing and evaluation of NLP models to ensure performance, accuracy, and scalability.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the team's technical growth.

Skills

NLP

Dialogue systems

Python

Deep learning

Communication

Education

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

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

spaCy

NLTK

Transformers

Job description

Placements24 in Pretoria is seeking a Senior NLP Engineer specializing in Dialogue Systems to design, develop, and deploy advanced conversational AI solutions across platforms. This role blends in-office collaboration in Pretoria with remote work flexibility to support our AI & Emerging Technologies division.

You will lead the development of robust NLP models, mentor junior engineers, and work with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, production-ready dialogue systems.