Remote NLP Engineer: Build Next-Gen Language AI

Placements24; Paarl; Remote; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Remote-friendly culture

Professional development

Health coverage

Bonuses

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a talented AI Engineer specializing in NLP to join our fully remote engineering team. You will design, develop, and deploy NLP models powering chatbots, sentiment analysis, translation, and text summarization.

The role emphasizes collaboration, scalable production systems, and staying current with NLP research. The ideal candidate holds a Master's or PhD in a related field, 3+ years of NLP experience, strong Python skills, and familiarity with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, AI, or related field.
• 3+ years of professional NLP experience with model deployment.
• Strong Python skills and experience with ML/DL frameworks.
• Experience with transformer-based models and Hugging Face is desirable.
• Familiarity with cloud AI/ML services (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement NLP models using Python and libraries.
• Fine-tune DL models for text classification, NER, QA, and language generation.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to deploy NLP features.
• Process large text datasets and prepare data for training.
• Evaluate models and optimize performance; stay updated on NLP research.
• Deploy models to production ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Write clean, well-documented code and participate in code reviews.
• Research novel NLP techniques and their potential applications.

Skills

NLP expertise

Python programming

Research & analysis

Remote collaboration

Machine learning concepts

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/CL/AI

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

Hugging Face Transformers

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a talented AI Engineer specializing in NLP to join our fully remote engineering team. You will design, develop, and deploy NLP models powering chatbots, sentiment analysis, translation, and text summarization.

The role emphasizes collaboration, scalable production systems, and staying current with NLP research. The ideal candidate holds a Master's or PhD in a related field, 3+ years of NLP experience, strong Python skills, and familiarity with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and