Remote NLP Data Scientist — Language Modeling & Insights

Placements24; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Conference funding

Professional development

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Data Scientist specializing in NLP to join their Pretoria-based team in a fully remote role. You will develop NLP models, process text data, and contribute to AI projects.

The ideal candidate holds a Master’s or PhD in CS/AI, demonstrates strong Python skills, and has experience with transformers and cloud platforms. You will collaborate with engineers and product managers and stay current with NLP advances.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Linguistics, Data Science, or related quantitative field.
• Demonstrated experience in Natural Language Processing and applied machine learning.
• Proficiency in Python and libraries such as NLTK, SpaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement NLP models for sentiment analysis, text classification, named entity recognition, and topic modeling.
• Design, train, and evaluate deep learning models for NLP applications.
• Process and clean large volumes of unstructured text data.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to integrate NLP solutions into products.
• Conduct research on state-of-the-art NLP techniques and algorithms.
• Analyze text data to uncover trends, patterns, and insights for business objectives.
• Develop and maintain robust data pipelines for NLP model development and deployment.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Stay up-to-date with latest NLP and ML advancements.

Skills

NLP

Python

Machine Learning

Data preprocessing

Communication

Remote collaboration

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/related field

Tools

NLTK

SpaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Data Scientist specializing in NLP to join their Pretoria-based team in a fully remote role. You will develop NLP models, process text data, and contribute to AI projects.

The ideal candidate holds a Master’s or PhD in CS/AI, demonstrates strong Python skills, and has experience with transformers and cloud platforms. You will collaborate with engineers and product managers and stay current with NLP advances.