Remote NLP AI Research Scientist: Breakthrough Models

Placements24; Bloemfontein; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Conference budgets

Flexible remote work

World-class resources

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an exceptional AI Research Scientist specializing in NLP to join a fully remote, globally distributed team. You will lead fundamental and applied NLP research, designing state-of-the-art models and evaluating them across diverse tasks.

You will publish findings in top-tier venues, mentor juniors, and contribute to production-ready research prototypes while collaborating with researchers and engineers worldwide.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, AI, Linguistics or closely related field with strong NLP publications.
• 5+ years of NLP research experience with expertise in transformers, RNNs, and seq2seq models.
• Ability to design and implement complex NLP systems and perform rigorous experiments.
• Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Experience with large language models (LLMs) and applications.
• Strong mathematical and statistical foundations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and remotely.

Responsibilities

• Conduct fundamental and applied NLP research across language modeling, MT, text generation, sentiment analysis, and QA.
• Design and evaluate novel deep learning architectures for NLP tasks.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to deploy prototype systems.
• Stay updated with NLP and AI advancements via literature and communities.
• Publish research results in leading AI/NLP conferences and journals.
• Develop production-ready code for experiments and prototypes.
• Mentor junior researchers and interns and present findings to teams.

Skills

NLP research

Transformer models

Experimental design

Communication

Education

PhD in CS/AI/linguistics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an exceptional AI Research Scientist specializing in NLP to join a fully remote, globally distributed team. You will lead fundamental and applied NLP research, designing state-of-the-art models and evaluating them across diverse tasks.

You will publish findings in top-tier venues, mentor juniors, and contribute to production-ready research prototypes while collaborating with researchers and engineers worldwide.