Remote NLP Engineer - Real-World AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Home office stipend

Flexible hours

Unlimited professional development

Global team collaboration

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a remote AI Engineer specializing in NLP to design, develop and deploy state-of-the-art NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, and entity recognition. You will build robust data pipelines and collaborate with data scientists to integrate models into production systems.

This fully remote role offers flexible hours, health benefits, home office stipend and opportunities for professional growth in a globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Linguistics, or related field.
• 3+ years of AI/ML engineering experience with a focus on NLP.
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (NLTK, spaCy, transformers).
• Hands-on experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and QA.
• Build and maintain data pipelines for training and evaluating NLP models.
• Collaborate with data scientists to deploy models into production applications.
• Optimize models for performance, scalability, and efficiency.
• Stay updated with NLP research and best practices.

Skills

NLP

Python

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Cloud platforms

Docker

Remote teamwork

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/AI/Linguistics

Tools

Docker

TensorFlow

PyTorch

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a remote AI Engineer specializing in NLP to design, develop and deploy state-of-the-art NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, and entity recognition. You will build robust data pipelines and collaborate with data scientists to integrate models into production systems.

This fully remote role offers flexible hours, health benefits, home office stipend and opportunities for professional growth in a globally distributed team.