Remote NLP Research Engineer: Advancing Language AI

Placements24; Mossel Bay; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Competitive salary

Professional development

Flexible hours

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a remote NLP Research Engineer to advance state-of-the-art language models, including transformers and LLMs, for applications in text generation, translation, sentiment analysis, and information extraction.

You will design, train, and evaluate models, publish findings, and collaborate with a world-class team of researchers. A strong academic background and practical experience with Python and modern NLP libraries are essential for a successful remote role.

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in CS, Computational Linguistics, AI, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and implement novel NLP algorithms and models (e.g., Transformers, LLMs, RNNs).
• Develop and fine-tune models for NLP tasks like text classification, NER, QA, and summarization.
• Process and analyze large volumes of text data to extract meaningful insights.

Skills

Python programming

NLP expertise

Research experience

Remote work

Publications

Education

MSc/PhD in CS / AI / Computational Linguistics

Tools

SpaCy

NLTK

Hugging Face Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a remote NLP Research Engineer to advance state-of-the-art language models, including transformers and LLMs, for applications in text generation, translation, sentiment analysis, and information extraction.

You will design, train, and evaluate models, publish findings, and collaborate with a world-class team of researchers. A strong academic background and practical experience with Python and modern NLP libraries are essential for a successful remote role.