Remote NLP ML Engineer (Text AI Innovator)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Professional development opportunities

Home office equipment allowance

Paid time off

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a remote Machine Learning Engineer specialized in NLP to join a distributed AI team. You will design, deploy, and optimize NLP models, contribute to production pipelines, and stay current with the latest NLP advances. You’ll collaborate across borders and deliver high-impact AI solutions.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years in ML engineering with NLP, Python, and frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch, plus experience in cloud and MLOps practices. Knowledge of LLMs is a plus.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in machine learning engineering with a strong focus on NLP.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Experience deploying NLP models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement state-of-the-art NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, NER, and translation.
• Build and optimize ML pipelines for training and evaluating NLP models.
• Collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to integrate NLP solutions into production systems.
• Conduct research on new NLP techniques and technologies to identify potential applications.
• Perform data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model fine-tuning.
• Evaluate model performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Contribute to the documentation and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in NLP and ML research.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving engineering standards.

Skills

NLP models

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

HuggingFace

ML pipelines

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Data Science

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a remote Machine Learning Engineer specialized in NLP to join a distributed AI team. You will design, deploy, and optimize NLP models, contribute to production pipelines, and stay current with the latest NLP advances. You’ll collaborate across borders and deliver high-impact AI solutions.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years in ML engineering with NLP, Python, and frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch, plus experience in cloud and MLOps practices. Knowledge of LLMs is a plus.