Remote NLP Engineer

Placements24; Bloemfontein; Hybrid; ZAR 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remote salary

Flexible work hours

Work from anywhere

Cloud computing resources

Collaborative team environment

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a skilled Remote NLP Engineer to join its innovative AI team. You will design, train, and deploy NLP models for sentiment analysis, summarization, translation, and conversational AI from your home office.

Work with data scientists and engineers to integrate models into production, optimize performance, and explore new language technologies. This fully remote role offers flexible hours and international collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Linguistics, or related field.
• 2+ years of professional NLP engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries such as NLTK, spaCy, Transformers.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) for NLP.
• Understanding of language modeling, embeddings, and transformer architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and fine-tune NLP models using state-of-the-art techniques.
• Develop solutions for text classification, NER, QA, and dialogue systems.
• Process and analyze large text data to extract insights.
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to deploy models in production.
• Evaluate models, identify improvements, and iterate.

Skills

Python

NLP libraries

Deep learning

Language modeling

Word embeddings

Transformer architectures

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or Linguistics

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

About the Role

Our client is seeking a skilled Remote NLP Engineer to join their innovative AI team. This position focuses on developing and deploying cutting-edge Natural Language Processing models and applications that enhance understanding and interaction with text and speech data. You will work on challenging projects involving sentiment analysis, text summarization, machine translation, and conversational AI. As a fully remote employee, you will collaborate with a global team, leveraging your expertise to build intelligent systems that can process and generate human language. This role is perfect for an engineer who is passionate about NLP and eager to contribute to impactful projects from the comfort of their home office.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and fine-tune Natural Language Processing (NLP) models using state-of-the-art techniques and libraries.
• Develop solutions for tasks such as text classification, named entity recognition, question answering, and dialogue systems.
• Process and analyze large volumes of text data to extract meaningful insights and patterns.
• Collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to integrate NLP models into production applications.
• Evaluate model performance, identify areas for improvement, and iterate on solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, or a related field.
• 2+ years of professional experience in NLP engineering or applied linguistics.
• Proficiency in Python and relevant NLP libraries (e.g., NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) for NLP tasks.
• Understanding of language modeling, word embeddings, and transformer architectures.

Benefits

• Competitive remote salary and comprehensive benefits.
• Flexible work hours and the ability to work from anywhere.
• Opportunity to work on exciting and challenging NLP projects .
• Access to advanced tools and cloud computing resources.
• A collaborative team environment that fosters professional growth.