NLP Data Scientist in Durban - Hybrid, AI Insights

Placements24; Durban; Hybrid; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Learning opportunities in AI

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Placements24 in Durban is seeking a Data Scientist with NLP specialization to join its analytics team. You will develop and deploy NLP models to extract insights from text, improve customer interactions, and drive business intelligence.

You will collaborate with product teams and engineers to embed NLP into applications, design experiments, and stay current with state-of-the-art techniques in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Linguistics, Data Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in data science with a strong focus on NLP.
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries such as NLTK, SpaCy, and Hugging Face Transformers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy NLP models for sentiment analysis, text classification, named entity recognition, and topic modelling.
• Process and analyze large volumes of unstructured text data from various sources.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate NLP models into existing products and platforms.
• Design and conduct experiments to evaluate model performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Research and implement state-of-the-art NLP techniques and libraries.
• Communicate complex findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

NLP expertise

Python programming

Communication

Education

Master's/PhD in CS/ Linguistics

Tools

NLTK

SpaCy

HuggingFace Transformers

TensorFlow/PyTorch

Job description

Placements24 in Durban is seeking a Data Scientist with NLP specialization to join its analytics team. You will develop and deploy NLP models to extract insights from text, improve customer interactions, and drive business intelligence.

You will collaborate with product teams and engineers to embed NLP into applications, design experiments, and stay current with state-of-the-art techniques in a fast-paced environment.