NLP Research Scientist — Pioneering AI, Hybrid Work

Placements24; Komani; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Professional development

Hybrid work model

Collaborative research environment

Job summary

Placements24 in Queenstown, South Africa, is seeking an AI Researcher specializing in NLP to push the boundaries of language understanding, generation, and translation. You will design and evaluate novel NLP models and collaborate with engineering teams to deploy them in production.

Applicants should hold a Ph.D. or Master’s in CS/AI/Linguistics with a strong NLP focus, have publications or project work, and be proficient in Python and NLP libraries such as NLTK, spaCy, and Hugging Face

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s in CS/AI/linguistics with a strong NLP focus.
• Proven track record of NLP research or significant project contributions.
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with NLP libraries.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge research in NLP including language modeling, sentiment analysis, and machine translation.
• Design, implement, and evaluate novel NLP algorithms and architectures.
• Develop and train deep learning models for various NLP tasks using PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Publish research findings in leading AI conferences and journals.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate NLP models into production systems.
• Stay current with the latest NLP research and advancements.

Skills

NLP research

Python programming

Deep learning

Text processing

Publications

Education

PhD/MA NLP

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

Job description

Placements24 in Queenstown, South Africa, is seeking an AI Researcher specializing in NLP to push the boundaries of language understanding, generation, and translation. You will design and evaluate novel NLP models and collaborate with engineering teams to deploy them in production.

Applicants should hold a Ph.D. or Master’s in CS/AI/Linguistics with a strong NLP focus, have publications or project work, and be proficient in Python and NLP libraries such as NLTK, spaCy, and Hugging Face