NLP ML Engineer - Production-Ready Text AI

Placements24; Kempton Park; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Placements24 in Gauteng is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer specialized in NLP to design, train, and deploy production-ready NLP models. You will work within the AI & Emerging Technologies division on projects like text analysis, sentiment analysis, and conversational AI.

Collaborate with product managers and engineers, stay current with NLP research, and contribute to scalable data pipelines and best practices for model deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, or a related field.
• Proven experience in developing and deploying NLP models in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, train, and deploy production-ready NLP models.
• Implement and optimize NLP algorithms for text classification, NER, topic modeling, QA.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines for NLP model training and evaluation.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate NLP models into applications.
• Evaluate model performance and iterate improvements.

Skills

Python

NLP

Deep learning

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/Computational Linguistics

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Transformers

Gensim

Job description

Placements24 in Gauteng is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer specialized in NLP to design, train, and deploy production-ready NLP models. You will work within the AI & Emerging Technologies division on projects like text analysis, sentiment analysis, and conversational AI.

Collaborate with product managers and engineers, stay current with NLP research, and contribute to scalable data pipelines and best practices for model deployment.