NLP Engineer — Hybrid Work, AI Text Tech

Placements24; Sandton; Hybrid; ZAR 550,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Medical coverage

Conference attendance

Hybrid work

Sandton projects

Job summary

Placements24 in Sandton is seeking a skilled NLP Engineer to design, develop, and deploy NLP models and applications that enable machines to understand and generate human language. You will work with large text datasets and collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to tackle sentiment analysis, translation, chatbots, and text summarization.

The role offers a hybrid work model, opportunities to publish at AI conferences, and competitive compensation with performance-based bonuses.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in CS/Computational Linguistics or a related field.
• 3+ years in developing and deploying NLP models.
• Strong Python skills and NLP libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Transformers).
• Experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch for NLP tasks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy state-of-the-art NLP models for text classification, NER, and QA.
• Process large unstructured text data with advanced NLP techniques.
• Build NLP pipelines for feature extraction, model training, and evaluation.
• Collaborate with product teams to integrate NLP features into apps.
• Stay updated with the latest NLP research and AI trends.

Skills

NLP models

Python

Deep learning

ML concepts

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/Computational Linguistics

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Placements24 in Sandton is seeking a skilled NLP Engineer to design, develop, and deploy NLP models and applications that enable machines to understand and generate human language. You will work with large text datasets and collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to tackle sentiment analysis, translation, chatbots, and text summarization.

The role offers a hybrid work model, opportunities to publish at AI conferences, and competitive compensation with performance-based bonuses.