Natural Language Processing Engineer

Placements24; Bloemfontein; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Fully remote position

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a specialized NLP Engineer to join their fully remote team. You will develop and deploy NLP models that understand, interpret, and generate human language, tackling sentiment analysis, translation, chatbots, and text summarization.

You will collaborate with research and engineering teams to push language AI boundaries, building scalable solutions and integrating them into existing platforms while enjoying flexible remote work.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in NLP engineering or research.
• Strong proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (NLTK, SpaCy, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and NLP model architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evaluate NLP models and algorithms.
• Process and analyze large volumes of text data for various applications.
• Develop and fine-tune deep learning models for tasks like text classification, entity recognition, and question answering.
• Integrate NLP solutions into existing platforms and applications.
• Collaborate with research and engineering teams to push the boundaries of language AI.

Skills

Python

NLP libraries

Deep learning

LLMs

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in CS/CL

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

SpaCy

Transformers

Job description

About the Role

Our client is seeking a specialized Natural Language Processing (NLP) Engineer to join their forward-thinking, remote-first team. This role is vital for developing and deploying advanced NLP models that enable machines to understand, interpret, and generate human language. You will work on projects ranging from sentiment analysis and chatbots to machine translation and text summarization. This is an exciting opportunity for an NLP expert to contribute to innovative applications, solve challenging linguistic problems, and influence the direction of language AI within the company, all while enjoying the benefits of a fully remote work environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evaluate NLP models and algorithms.
• Process and analyze large volumes of text data for various applications.
• Develop and fine-tune deep learning models for tasks like text classification, entity recognition, and question answering.
• Integrate NLP solutions into existing platforms and applications.
• Collaborate with research and engineering teams to push the boundaries of language AI.

Requirements

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in NLP engineering or research.
• Strong proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (NLTK, SpaCy, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and NLP model architectures.
• Understanding of linguistic principles and experience with large language models (LLMs) is highly desirable.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Fully remote position, offering unparalleled flexibility and work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous paid time off and paid sick leave.
• Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies in NLP and AI.