Principal NLP Scientist, Remote AI Research Leader

Placements24; Durban; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Dental/vision coverage

Generous PTO

Conference & training budget

Retirement plan

Home office stipend

Remote work culture

Extensive computational resources

Job summary

Placements24 seeks a Principal NLP Scientist to lead the development of advanced NLP models in a fully remote AI research division. You will guide research, mentor junior researchers, and drive impactful language technologies.

Collaborating with engineers and product teams, you will publish findings in top conferences and steer direction while benefiting from a flexible remote culture and ample computational resources.

Qualifications

• PhD in CS, computational linguistics, AI or related field with NLP specialization.
• 7+ years of NLP research and development with a strong publication record.
• Deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and libraries like Hugging Face Transformers.
• Excellent communication and ability to lead and mentor teams.
• Experience deploying NLP models into production environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead research and development of NLP models, including transformers and LLMs.
• Design novel algorithms for sentiment, NER, translation, summarization, QA, and dialogue.
• Drive end-to-end NLP project lifecycle from concept to deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and product managers to deploy NLP capabilities.
• Publish findings in top NLP conferences and journals; mentor junior researchers.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Public speaking

Education

PhD in CS/Computational Linguistics/AI (NLP)

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

Python

Job description

Placements24 seeks a Principal NLP Scientist to lead the development of advanced NLP models in a fully remote AI research division. You will guide research, mentor junior researchers, and drive impactful language technologies.

Collaborating with engineers and product teams, you will publish findings in top conferences and steer direction while benefiting from a flexible remote culture and ample computational resources.