NLP Solutions Architect - Remote/Hybrid AI Innovations

Placements24; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible working hours

Remote work options

Generous annual leave

Learning opportunities

Access to cutting‑edge AI tools

Collaborative team environment

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an AI Solutions Architect specializing in NLP to design and implement advanced NLP-driven AI solutions in Cape Town. You will translate business needs into scalable architectures, guide development from concept to deployment, and collaborate with data scientists and engineers to deliver impactful AI applications.

The ideal candidate will have strong NLP, ML, and software architecture experience, plus hands‑on work with Python libraries and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, AI, or a related field.
• Extensive experience in developing and deploying NLP models and applications.
• Proficiency in Python and libraries such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end‑to‑end AI solutions incorporating NLP capabilities.
• Develop and implement ML models for text classification, sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and QA.
• Evaluate NLP tools and frameworks (spaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers for model training, validation, and deployment.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and designs.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams.
• Assess feasibility and provide realistic estimations.
• Present designs to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Stay current with NLP and ML advancements.

Skills

NLP expertise

Machine learning

Software architecture

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

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

Tools

spaCy

NLTK

Hugging Face Transformers

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an AI Solutions Architect specializing in NLP to design and implement advanced NLP-driven AI solutions in Cape Town. You will translate business needs into scalable architectures, guide development from concept to deployment, and collaborate with data scientists and engineers to deliver impactful AI applications.

The ideal candidate will have strong NLP, ML, and software architecture experience, plus hands‑on work with Python libraries and cloud platforms.