Principal NLP Engineer - Lead Production ML Systems

Placements24; Centurion; Híbrido; ZAR 1 800 000 - 3 000 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Competitive salary

Stock options

Health insurance

Remote-friendly

Relocation assistance

Professional development

Resumo da oferta

Placements24 in Centurion, Gauteng, seeks a Principal Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP to lead the design, development, and deployment of state-of-the-art NLP models. You will drive production-ready ML systems and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced team.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of ML experience with NLP focus, a Master’s or PhD in a related field, and hands-on expertise in Python, TensorFlow or PyTorch, and transformers.

Qualificações

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• 8+ years of professional ML experience with NLP specialization.
• Proven track record of production NLP models.
• Expertise in Python and NLP libraries (spaCy, NLTK, transformers).
• Deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow or PyTorch).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and MLOps best practices.
• Strong programming skills and leadership abilities.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Lead design, development, and deployment of advanced NLP models and algorithms.
• Build and maintain scalable production ML systems for NLP tasks.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to define NLP requirements.
• Optimize models for performance, efficiency, and robustness.
• Mentor junior ML engineers and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Stay current with NLP and ML research and apply new techniques.

Conhecimentos

NLP

Python

Deep Learning

ML System Design

Leadership

Formação académica

Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science / AI / Computational Linguistics

Ferramentas

spaCy

NLTK

Hugging Face Transformers

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Placements24 in Centurion, Gauteng, seeks a Principal Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP to lead the design, development, and deployment of state-of-the-art NLP models. You will drive production-ready ML systems and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced team.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of ML experience with NLP focus, a Master’s or PhD in a related field, and hands-on expertise in Python, TensorFlow or PyTorch, and transformers.