NLP Data Scientist — Text Insights (Hybrid)

Placements24; Richards Bay; Hybrid; ZAR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Hybrid work arrangement

Health and wellness benefits

Professional development

Conferences

Richards Bay location

Job summary

Placements24 in Richards Bay is seeking a Data Scientist specializing in NLP to join our team in a hybrid role. You will work on cutting-edge projects that leverage language data to extract insights, improve customer interactions, and automate complex processes.

The ideal candidate has a Master’s or PhD in a relevant field, 3+ years in data science with NLP focus, and strong Python expertise with NLTK, spaCy, and Transformers.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Linguistics, Data Science, or a related field with an NLP focus.
• 3+ years of experience in data science, with a strong emphasis on NLP.
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (e.g., NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) for NLP tasks.
• Strong understanding of statistical modeling, machine learning algorithms, and text representation techniques.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement advanced NLP models for tasks such as text classification, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and topic modeling.
• Process and analyze large volumes of unstructured text data to identify patterns and insights.
• Collaborate with software engineers to deploy NLP models into production systems.
• Design and conduct experiments to evaluate the performance of NLP models and algorithms.
• Stay current with the latest research and techniques in NLP and machine learning.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders through clear visualizations and reports.

Skills

NLP expertise

Python programming

Statistical modeling

Machine learning

Communication skills

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/Linguistics/Data Science with NLP focus

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Placements24 in Richards Bay is seeking a Data Scientist specializing in NLP to join our team in a hybrid role. You will work on cutting-edge projects that leverage language data to extract insights, improve customer interactions, and automate complex processes.

The ideal candidate has a Master’s or PhD in a relevant field, 3+ years in data science with NLP focus, and strong Python expertise with NLTK, spaCy, and Transformers.