Remote NLP Engineer - Build Next-Gen Language Models

Placements24; Klerksdorp; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance-based bonuses

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement savings plan

Flexible work environment

Professional development budget

Cutting-edge AI tools access

Global distributed team

Job summary

Placements24 is hiring a Remote AI Engineer specializing in NLP to design, train, and deploy cutting-edge NLP models. You will build data pipelines, explore transformer-based architectures, and collaborate with a world-class research team from any location.

The role requires 3+ years of NLP experience, strong Python skills, and familiarity with deep learning frameworks and cloud platforms. Excellent communication is essential for remote collaboration and rapid iteration.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI, Computational Linguistics, or related field with NLP focus.
• 3+ years of hands-on NLP model development and deployment in production.
• Strong NLP fundamentals: tokenization, parsing, sentiment analysis, NER, summarization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement state-of-the-art NLP models (transformer-based, seq2seq, topic modelling).
• Train, fine-tune, and evaluate NLP models on large datasets.
• Build robust data pipelines for text preprocessing and feature extraction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate NLP into products and services.
• Research new NLP algorithms and techniques for innovation.
• Write clean, well-documented Python code.
• Stay updated with latest NLP/AI research and tools.
• Troubleshoot models and systems for optimal performance.

Skills

NLP

Python

Deep learning

Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

LLMs

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Communication

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/Computational Linguistics

Tools

Hugging Face

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Placements24 is hiring a Remote AI Engineer specializing in NLP to design, train, and deploy cutting-edge NLP models. You will build data pipelines, explore transformer-based architectures, and collaborate with a world-class research team from any location.

The role requires 3+ years of NLP experience, strong Python skills, and familiarity with deep learning frameworks and cloud platforms. Excellent communication is essential for remote collaboration and rapid iteration.