Principal NLP Engineer — Hybrid (Pretoria)

Placements24; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 1.200.000 - 1.800.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid work model

Professional development opportunities

Conference attendance & learning

Zusammenfassung

Placements24 is seeking a Principal AI Engineer (NLP) to lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced NLP models in Pretoria. The role focuses on text understanding, generation, and analysis, driving state-of-the-art capabilities.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in AI/ML with a strong NLP background, expertise in major DL frameworks, and hands-on experience with production NLP systems. Hybrid work with a modern Pretoria facility is offered.

Qualifikationen

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• 7+ years of professional AI/ML experience with a focus on NLP.
• Proven track record deploying NLP models in production.
• Expertise with TensorFlow, PyTorch or Keras.
• Strong Python programming and NLP library experience.

Aufgaben

• Lead design and implementation of advanced NLP models and algorithms (transformers, LSTMs, BERT, GPT).
• Develop and optimize NLP pipelines for sentiment, classification, entity recognition, summarization, and translation.
• Architect scalable, production-grade NLP systems for understanding and generation.
• Collaborate with product, software engineers, and stakeholders to define requirements and deliver NLP solutions.
• Mentor junior AI engineers and contribute to the technical vision of the AI team.
• Conduct research on state-of-the-art NLP techniques and evaluate applicability to business needs.
• Manage lifecycle of NLP models: training, fine-tuning, deployment, monitoring.
• Ensure ethical and responsible AI development and deployment.
• Write high-quality code, documentation, and proposals.

Kenntnisse

Leadership/mentoring

Problem-solving

Communication

Python

NLP expertise

Ausbildung

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

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

Hugging Face Transformers

NLTK

spaCy

Jobbeschreibung

Placements24 is seeking a Principal AI Engineer (NLP) to lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced NLP models in Pretoria. The role focuses on text understanding, generation, and analysis, driving state-of-the-art capabilities.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in AI/ML with a strong NLP background, expertise in major DL frameworks, and hands-on experience with production NLP systems. Hybrid work with a modern Pretoria facility is offered.