NLP Research Scientist — Advanced Language AI

Placements24; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Conference travel

Relocation assistance

Research resources

Career growth in AI research

Job summary

Placements24 in Paarl, Western Cape, seeks an AI Researcher specializing in NLP to advance state-of-the-art language models. The role focuses on developing novel NLP algorithms, training large models, and publishing results.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, access cutting-edge compute resources, and mentor junior researchers while contributing to strategic NLP directions within the organization.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. or Master’s in CS/AI/related field with NLP focus.
• 5+ years of dedicated NLP research experience.
• Proven publication record in NLP/AI venues (ACL/EMNLP/NeurIPS).
• Proficiency in Python and DL frameworks (PyTorch, TF).
• Knowledge of transformers, LSTMs, CNNs for language tasks.

Responsibilities

• Lead original NLP research across text generation, sentiment analysis, MT, info extraction.
• Develop and implement novel NLP models and DL architectures.
• Fine-tune large language models for targeted tasks.
• Analyze large text datasets and identify key features.
• Collaborate with engineering to integrate research into products.
• Publish in top NLP/AI conferences and journals.
• Mentor junior researchers and interns.

Skills

NLP research

Deep learning

Python

Transformers

Publish research

Education

PhD or Master’s in CS/AI/Computational Linguistics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face Transformers

spaCy

NLTK

Job description

Placements24 in Paarl, Western Cape, seeks an AI Researcher specializing in NLP to advance state-of-the-art language models. The role focuses on developing novel NLP algorithms, training large models, and publishing results.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, access cutting-edge compute resources, and mentor junior researchers while contributing to strategic NLP directions within the organization.