NLP Research Scientist — Hybrid, Cutting-Edge Language AI

Placements24; Bloemfontein; Hybride; ZAR 900 000 - 1 300 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work flexibility

Medical benefits

Conference attendance

Research facilities

Paid time off

Résumé du poste

Placements24 is seeking an NLP Research Scientist in Bloemfontein for a hybrid role focused on advancing NLP research and development. You will design, implement, and evaluate cutting-edge NLP models for language understanding, generation, and translation, collaborating across researchers and engineers.

The role requires a PhD or Master’s degree in a related field, strong NLP publication record, and expertise in Python and modern NLP libraries.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related field with NLP specialization.
• Proven NLP research record with publications in reputable venues.
• Strong ML/DL and statistical modeling skills applied to NLP.

Responsabilités

• Conduct NLP research in text classification, sentiment analysis, machine translation, QA.
• Develop and implement novel NLP algorithms and deep learning models.
• Process and analyze large textual data sets.
• Evaluate NLP model performance and system outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate NLP into products.
• Publish research findings in top conferences/journals.
• Design experiments to validate models and hypotheses.
• Mentor junior researchers and interns.

Connaissances

NLP Research

Deep Learning

Python

Transformers

Text Classification

Formation

PhD in CS/Computational Linguistics

Outils

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Description du poste

Placements24 is seeking an NLP Research Scientist in Bloemfontein for a hybrid role focused on advancing NLP research and development. You will design, implement, and evaluate cutting-edge NLP models for language understanding, generation, and translation, collaborating across researchers and engineers.

The role requires a PhD or Master’s degree in a related field, strong NLP publication record, and expertise in Python and modern NLP libraries.