Remote NLP Research Scientist: Pushing AI Frontiers

Placements24; Mtubatuba Local Municipality; Hybrid; ZAR 1,976,000 - 2,964,000; Full time

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a fully remote AI Research Scientist specializing in NLP to advance language understanding, generation, and conversational AI. You will join a world-class research team and contribute to production-ready NLP systems while publishing at top conferences, all within a remote-first environment.

Required: PhD in CS/AI/Computational Linguistics, 3+ years NLP research, deep learning in NLP (Transformers, LSTMs), Python and libraries (Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK), and strong

Qualifications

• PhD in CS/AI/Computational Linguistics with a strong NLP focus.
• 3+ years post-doctoral or industry NLP research experience.
• Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK) and DL frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Strong publication record in NLP/AI conferences.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge NLP research including sentiment analysis, translation, text generation, and conversational AI.
• Design, develop, and implement novel NLP models and algorithms using deep learning.
• Publish research findings in top-tier conferences and journals.
• Collaborate with engineers to deploy research prototypes to production.
• Analyze large datasets to extract NLP insights and metrics.
• Mentor junior researchers and contribute to research strategy.

Skills

NLP expertise

Deep learning

Python

Transformers

LLMs fine-tuning

Education

PhD in Computer Science / AI / Computational Linguistics

Tools

Hugging Face Transformers

spaCy

NLTK

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a fully remote AI Research Scientist specializing in NLP to advance language understanding, generation, and conversational AI. You will join a world-class research team and contribute to production-ready NLP systems while publishing at top conferences, all within a remote-first environment.

Required: PhD in CS/AI/Computational Linguistics, 3+ years NLP research, deep learning in NLP (Transformers, LSTMs), Python and libraries (Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK), and strong