Principal NLP Engineer: Lead AI Models & Language Tech

Placements24; Rustenburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical aid

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Principal AI Engineer (NLP) in Rustenburg, North West to lead the development of state-of-the-art NLP models. You will architect scalable pipelines, mentor a team, and shape the AI strategy in a cutting-edge tech environment.

You should bring a strong research background and hands-on engineering excellence with Python, Transformers, and DL frameworks to drive impact on real-world AI products.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in CS/Computational Linguistics or related field.
• Extensive production NLP experience.
• Strong ML/DL foundations in NLP.
• Proficiency with Python and NLP libraries (spaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face).
• Experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of advanced NLP models (transformers, RNNs, LSTMs).
• Architect scalable NLP pipelines for sentiment, generation, translation, and summarization.
• Research new NLP techniques and evaluate integration potential.
• Optimize models for performance, accuracy, and resources.
• Mentor engineers and guide NLP best practices.

Skills

NLP expertise

Python

Transformers

Deep learning

Education

Master's/PhD in CS/Computational Linguistics

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

spaCy

NLTK

Hugging Face Transformers

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Principal AI Engineer (NLP) in Rustenburg, North West to lead the development of state-of-the-art NLP models. You will architect scalable pipelines, mentor a team, and shape the AI strategy in a cutting-edge tech environment.

You should bring a strong research background and hands-on engineering excellence with Python, Transformers, and DL frameworks to drive impact on real-world AI products.