Lead NLP Engineering for Language Models - Remote

Placements24; Kempton Park; Remote; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Learning budget for conferences and up

Stock options and performance bonuses

Job summary

Placements24 in South Africa is seeking a Lead ML Engineer specializing in NLP to guide a distributed team in building scalable language models and AI-powered solutions.

The role offers remote work with strong emphasis on innovation, mentoring, and strategic NLP initiatives across products. This position provides significant opportunities for professional growth within a forward-thinking company.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in CS/AI/Computational Linguistics required.
• 5+ years in ML engineering with NLP focus.
• Experience deploying NLP models in real-world apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of advanced NLP models and applications.
• Mentor and guide a team of ML engineers and data scientists.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to define NLP roadmaps.
• Research new NLP techniques and evaluate their business impact.
• Ensure performance, reliability, and scalability of NLP systems.

Skills

Leadership

NLP

Python

ML Engineering

Cloud Platforms

Docker/Kubernetes

LLMs/Transformers

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in CS/AI/Computational Linguistics

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Placements24 in South Africa is seeking a Lead ML Engineer specializing in NLP to guide a distributed team in building scalable language models and AI-powered solutions.

The role offers remote work with strong emphasis on innovation, mentoring, and strategic NLP initiatives across products. This position provides significant opportunities for professional growth within a forward-thinking company.