Principal NLP Engineer — Lead Production-Ready AI

Placements24; Klerksdorp; Vor Ort; ZAR 1.200.000 - 2.300.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health coverage

Retirement contributions

Performance bonuses

Professional development

Conference attendance

Zusammenfassung

Placements24 is seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer (NLP) to join its R&D team in Klerksdorp, North West. You will design, build, and deploy cutting-edge NLP models for sentiment, translation, and text generation, leading architectural decisions and mentoring engineers.

You will collaborate with product managers and data scientists to define requirements, optimize performance, and drive responsible AI practices while exploring novel NLP approaches and publishing innovations.

Qualifikationen

• Master's or PhD in CS/AI/ML or related quantitative field.
• 8+ years hands-on ML engineering with NLP specialization.
• Proven production NLP model development and deployment experience.
• Strong knowledge of text classification, NER, QA, summarization and language generation.
• Proficiency with TF, PyTorch or Keras; Python and NLP libs.
• Experience with cloud platforms and MLOps practices.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities.

Aufgaben

• Lead end-to-end development and deployment of advanced NLP models.
• Design scalable ML pipelines for training, evaluation, and inference.
• Research and apply state‑of‑the‑art NLP techniques.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to define requirements.
• Optimize model performance, latency, and reliability in production.
• Develop data processing and feature engineering for text data.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices.
• Stay at the forefront of NLP research and publish innovations.
• Contribute to IP through publications and patents.
• Ensure ethical and responsible application of NLP technologies.

Kenntnisse

Leadership potential

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Mentoring

NLP expertise

Deep learning

Python programming

Cloud ML/DevOps

Model deployment

Ausbildung

Master's or Ph.D. in CS/AI/ML

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

spaCy

NLTK

Hugging Face Transformers

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Jobbeschreibung

Placements24 is seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer (NLP) to join its R&D team in Klerksdorp, North West. You will design, build, and deploy cutting-edge NLP models for sentiment, translation, and text generation, leading architectural decisions and mentoring engineers.

You will collaborate with product managers and data scientists to define requirements, optimize performance, and drive responsible AI practices while exploring novel NLP approaches and publishing innovations.