NLP Data Scientist - Text & Language Modeling (Paarl)

Placements24; Paarl; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonuses

Health insurance

Professional growth

Conferences

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an NLP Data Scientist for our client in Paarl, Western Cape. You will build NLP models for text analysis, sentiment, and topic modeling, handling large text datasets and collaborating with product and engineering teams.

This role emphasizes research-driven work, with access to cutting-edge tools and opportunities to advance in NLP within a collaborative environment in Paarl.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, or a related field.
• Proven experience in Natural Language Processing and language models (e.g., Transformers, BERT).
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (NLTK, SpaCy, Hugging Face).
• Strong foundation in ML algorithms and statistics.

Responsibilities

• Develop, train, and evaluate NLP models for text classification, entity recognition, and summarization.
• Perform data cleaning, preprocessing, and feature engineering on large text datasets.
• Collaborate with software engineers to deploy NLP models to production.
• Research new NLP techniques to improve model performance.
• Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

NLP

Python

NLTK

SpaCy

Transformers

Machine Learning

Statistical Modeling

Data Analysis

Research

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/Computational Linguistics/Data Science

Tools

NLTK

SpaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an NLP Data Scientist for our client in Paarl, Western Cape. You will build NLP models for text analysis, sentiment, and topic modeling, handling large text datasets and collaborating with product and engineering teams.

This role emphasizes research-driven work, with access to cutting-edge tools and opportunities to advance in NLP within a collaborative environment in Paarl.