NLP Engineer — Hybrid, Impactful Language Tech

Placements24; Soweto; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Competitive salary and bonuses

Health and wellness benefits

Professional development

Impactful language technology projects

Job summary

Placements24 in Soweto is seeking a skilled NLP Engineer to develop and implement NLP models to extract insights from text, build conversational AI systems, and enhance language understanding. This role combines research and engineering in a hybrid work model.

You will collaborate with data scientists and software engineers, leverage TensorFlow/PyTorch, and stay current with NLP advances. A Master’s or PhD and 3+ years’ experience are required.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in Natural Language Processing.
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Transformers).
• Experience with deep learning models for NLP (LSTMs, GRUs, Transformers).
• Familiarity with text data processing and representation techniques.
• Strong understanding of machine learning principles.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, and named entity recognition.
• Build language understanding systems, chatbots, and virtual assistants.
• Perform feature engineering and data preprocessing for text data.
• Utilize machine learning and deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) for NLP tasks.
• Collaborate with engineers to integrate NLP functionalities into applications.
• Stay updated with the latest research and advancements in NLP and related fields.

Skills

NLP Expertise

Machine Learning basics

Python programming

Education

Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics

Tools

Python

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Placements24 in Soweto is seeking a skilled NLP Engineer to develop and implement NLP models to extract insights from text, build conversational AI systems, and enhance language understanding. This role combines research and engineering in a hybrid work model.

You will collaborate with data scientists and software engineers, leverage TensorFlow/PyTorch, and stay current with NLP advances. A Master’s or PhD and 3+ years’ experience are required.