Remote Lead NLP & AI Research Scientist

Placements24; Centurion; Hybrid; ZAR 2,030,000 - 3,553,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Fully remote

Professional development allowances

Conference attendance

Home office setup

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a visionary Remote Lead AI Research Scientist to spearhead NLP advancements. You will define the research agenda, lead a team of researchers, and develop next-generation NLP models for generation, sentiment analysis, translation and QA.

The ideal candidate holds a PhD in a related field, 7+ years of AI/ML research with 3+ in leadership, and a track record of publications or open-source contributions.

Qualifications

• PhD in NLP or related field with strong NLP specialization.
• 7+ years of AI/ML research, 3+ in leadership focusing on NLP.
• Proven publications, patents, or influential open-source work.
• Experience with large-scale data processing and distributed training.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive NLP research roadmap and initiatives.
• Lead and mentor a team of AI researchers.
• Develop and implement advanced DL models for NLP tasks.
• Publish findings at top conferences and journals.
• Collaborate with engineering to productionize research.

Skills

NLP

Deep learning

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Transformers

Python

Leadership

Research publications

Education

PhD in AI

Tools

Hugging Face Transformers

PyTorch

TensorFlow

spaCy

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a visionary Remote Lead AI Research Scientist to spearhead NLP advancements. You will define the research agenda, lead a team of researchers, and develop next-generation NLP models for generation, sentiment analysis, translation and QA.

The ideal candidate holds a PhD in a related field, 7+ years of AI/ML research with 3+ in leadership, and a track record of publications or open-source contributions.