NLP Data Scientist: Hybrid Role for Insight & Impact

Placements24; Bloemfontein; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health and wellness benefits

Professional development

Hybrid work arrangement

Engaging NLP projects

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an NLP Data Scientist in Welkom to develop and deploy NLP models that extract insights from unstructured text and support business decisions.

You will process large text datasets, build data pipelines, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate needs into scalable NLP solutions. Strong Python and NLP library experience is essential, with a focus on sentiment, topic modeling, and embeddings.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Data Science, Computer Science, Linguistics, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in data science focusing on NLP.
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries such as NLTK, SpaCy, or Transformers.
• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and statistical modeling.
• Experience with text preprocessing, feature extraction, and embeddings.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for conveying complex ideas in Welkom.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement NLP models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and named entity recognition.
• Process and analyze large volumes of text data from various sources.
• Build and maintain data pipelines for NLP model training and deployment.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into data science solutions.
• Evaluate model performance and iterate to improve accuracy and relevance.
• Present findings and insights to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

NLP

Python

NLTK

SpaCy

Transformers

Education

Master's degree or Ph.D. in Data Science / CS / Linguistics

Tools

NLTK

SpaCy

Transformers

Hugging Face

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an NLP Data Scientist in Welkom to develop and deploy NLP models that extract insights from unstructured text and support business decisions.

You will process large text datasets, build data pipelines, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate needs into scalable NLP solutions. Strong Python and NLP library experience is essential, with a focus on sentiment, topic modeling, and embeddings.