Remote NLP Engineer - Build AI Language Solutions

Placements24; Gqeberha; Hybrid; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Remote work

Learning opportunities

Conference attendance

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking an innovative AI NLP Engineer to join its technology team on a fully remote basis. You will design, develop, and deploy NLP models for applications such as chatbots, sentiment analysis, and summarization, enabling machines to understand and respond to human language.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years in AI/ML with NLP, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, AI, or related field.
• 2+ years of AI/ML engineering focus on NLP.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Hands-on with NLP libraries and DL frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Understanding tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, language modeling.
• Experience with transformer models (BERT, GPT).
• Cloud familiarity (AWS/Azure/GCP) and MLOps basics.
• Excellent problem-solving and remote collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement NLP models and algorithms using Python and libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Transformers).
• Build and optimize text processing pipelines for large text datasets.
• Design and train deep learning models for NLP tasks (classification, NER, QA, sentiment).
• Integrate NLP solutions into existing products and services.
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to deploy models in production.
• Conduct experiments to evaluate model performance and identify improvements.
• Stay current with NLP and AI research developments.
• Contribute to design and architecture of NLP systems.
• Document technical specs, methodologies, and results.

Skills

Python

NLP

Machine learning

Deep learning

Remote collaboration

English communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

NLTK / spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

AWS / Azure / GCP

Job description

Placements24 is seeking an innovative AI NLP Engineer to join its technology team on a fully remote basis. You will design, develop, and deploy NLP models for applications such as chatbots, sentiment analysis, and summarization, enabling machines to understand and respond to human language.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years in AI/ML with NLP, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch.