Machine Learning Engineer (NLP)

Placements24; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Medical aid

Retirement fund

Professional training opportunities

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP to build and deploy advanced NLP models in our tech hub in Tembisa. You will collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to craft state-of-the-art text analysis and generation features for our product suite.

The role demands strong Python experience, hands-on NLP work, and a passion for solving language challenges in a production environment. Based in Tembisa, the team emphasizes innovation and practical impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, or related field.
• 2+ years hands-on NLP model development and deployment experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and fine-tune NLP models for sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and named entity recognition.
• Implement NLP algorithms using Python and libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Transformers).
• Integrate ML models into production systems ensuring scalability and performance.
• Process large text datasets to extract meaningful insights and features.
• Collaborate with product managers to translate requirements into NLP features.

Skills

NLP model development

Python

Production deployment

Data preprocessing

Deep learning (RNNs/LSTMs/Transformers

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Computational Linguistics

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

Job description

About the Role

Our client is seeking a talented Machine Learning Engineer with a specialization in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to join their innovative technology hub in Tembisa . This role involves building and deploying sophisticated NLP models that will power advanced features in our client's suite of products. You will work closely with data scientists and software engineers to develop state-of-the-art solutions for text analysis, understanding, and generation. The ideal candidate is passionate about leveraging AI to solve complex language-based challenges and thrives in a hands-on, development-focused environment contributing directly to product innovation and user experience enhancement in Tembisa .

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and fine-tune NLP models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, topic modeling, named entity recognition, and machine translation.
• Implement and optimize NLP algorithms using Python and relevant libraries (e.g., NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Integrate ML models into production systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Process and analyze large volumes of text data to extract meaningful insights and features.
• Collaborate with product managers to define requirements and translate them into technical specifications for NLP features.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in developing and deploying NLP models in a production environment.
• Strong programming skills in Python, with experience using ML/NLP libraries.
• Familiarity with deep learning architectures for NLP (e.g., RNNs, LSTMs, Transformers).
• Experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering, and evaluation metrics for NLP tasks.

Benefits

• Competitive annual salary with performance incentives.
• Comprehensive medical aid and retirement fund contributions.
• Opportunities for specialized training and attending NLP conferences.
• A dynamic work environment with a focus on technological advancement.
• Located in the vibrant area of Tembisa .