Remote NLP Research Lead: Frontier AI Discovery

Placements24; Randburg; Hybrid; ZAR 1.200.000 - 1.800.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Remote work

Salary & bonuses

Equity options

Health insurance

Home office stipend

Conference support

Zusammenfassung

Placements24 is seeking a Senior AI Researcher specializing in NLP to join a remote-first research team. You will develop and optimize cutting-edge NLP models for tasks such as text generation, sentiment analysis, information extraction, and question answering.

You will publish findings in top AI venues, mentor researchers, and drive research initiatives while collaborating with distributed colleagues across the globe. Strong theoretical NLP and deep learning expertise are required.

Qualifikationen

• PhD or equivalent in CS/AI with NLP focus.
• 5+ years in NLP research with publications or open-source contributions.
• Expertise in Transformers, LSTMs, CNNs for NLP.
• Strong Python skills and NLP libraries (Transformers, NLTK, spaCy).
• Experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Experience with large-scale text data and distributed computing.
• Excellent analytical, communication and collaborative skills.

Aufgaben

• Conduct fundamental and applied NLP research.
• Develop novel NLP algorithms for translation, summarization, and dialogue.
• Implement and fine-tune models with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or JAX.
• Design experiments to evaluate performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to integrate NLP into products.
• Publish findings in leading AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ACL).
• Mentor junior researchers and contribute to research roadmaps.

Kenntnisse

NLP

Deep Learning

Transformers

Python

Hugging Face

Research leadership

Ausbildung

PhD in CS/AI

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

JAX

NLTK

spaCy

Jobbeschreibung

Placements24 is seeking a Senior AI Researcher specializing in NLP to join a remote-first research team. You will develop and optimize cutting-edge NLP models for tasks such as text generation, sentiment analysis, information extraction, and question answering.

You will publish findings in top AI venues, mentor researchers, and drive research initiatives while collaborating with distributed colleagues across the globe. Strong theoretical NLP and deep learning expertise are required.