NLP Research Scientist — Next-Gen Language AI

Placements24; Gqeberha; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Research grants

Health insurance

Conference travel

Computing resources

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a brilliant AI Research Scientist specializing in NLP to join a cutting-edge AI research lab in Port Elizabeth. You will lead original NLP research, develop novel DL architectures, and collaborate with world-class researchers to push language technology forward.

This role offers access to substantial computational resources, opportunities to publish in leading venues, and a chance to mentor junior researchers while shaping next-generation models.

Qualifications

• PhD in CS/AI/Computational Linguistics with NLP focus.
• Strong publication track record in NLP conferences.
• Proficiency in DL for NLP (RNNs, LSTMs, Transformers, BERT, GPT).

Responsibilities

• Conduct original research in Natural Language Processing, including language modeling, translation, sentiment analysis, text generation, and information extraction.
• Develop and implement novel deep learning architectures for NLP tasks.
• Design experiments to evaluate new models and techniques.
• Analyze large text datasets to derive linguistic insights.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to integrate findings into products.
• Stay abreast of NLP/AI research trends.
• Publish findings in top AI conferences and journals.
• Contribute to open-source NLP libraries and tools.
• Mentor junior researchers and interns.

Skills

NLP research

Machine learning

Deep learning

Python

Transformers

Research collaboration

Education

PhD in Computer Science/AI/Computational Linguistics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

HuggingFace Transformers

spaCy

NLTK

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a brilliant AI Research Scientist specializing in NLP to join a cutting-edge AI research lab in Port Elizabeth. You will lead original NLP research, develop novel DL architectures, and collaborate with world-class researchers to push language technology forward.

This role offers access to substantial computational resources, opportunities to publish in leading venues, and a chance to mentor junior researchers while shaping next-generation models.