NLP Engineer (Hybrid) - Cutting-Edge Language AI

Placements24; Soweto; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary and incentives

Health/vision/dental insurance

Professional growth

Exposure to cutting-edge NLP

Hybrid work model in Soweto

Job summary

Placements24 in Soweto, Gauteng, seeks an experienced NLP Engineer to join its AI R&D team. You will design and deploy language models, analyze text data, and build chatbots, collaborating with data scientists and software engineers in a hybrid role with on-site collaboration in Soweto.

The ideal candidate has a Master’s or PhD in CS or Computational Linguistics, 3+ years in NLP, and strong Python plus libraries such as SpaCy, NLTK, and Transformers, with TensorFlow or PyTorch.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field with an NLP focus.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Natural Language Processing and machine learning.
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (e.g., NLTK, SpaCy, Transformers, Hugging Face).
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) applied to NLP tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy NLP models and algorithms for language understanding tasks.
• Process and analyze large volumes of text data, extracting features and insights.
• Build and refine ML pipelines for NLP applications (text classification, NER, summarization).
• Collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to integrate NLP solutions into production systems.

Job description

Placements24 in Soweto, Gauteng, seeks an experienced NLP Engineer to join its AI R&D team. You will design and deploy language models, analyze text data, and build chatbots, collaborating with data scientists and software engineers in a hybrid role with on-site collaboration in Soweto.

The ideal candidate has a Master’s or PhD in CS or Computational Linguistics, 3+ years in NLP, and strong Python plus libraries such as SpaCy, NLTK, and Transformers, with TensorFlow or PyTorch.