Remote Principal NLP Engineer — Generative AI Leader

Placements24; Rustenburg; Hybride; ZAR 3 046 000 - 4 061 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote work

Stock options

Health insurance

Résumé du poste

Placements24 is seeking a distinguished Principal NLP Engineer to drive innovation in generative AI. This remote role requires occasional collaboration, with the primary team based in Rustenburg, North West. You will lead R&D on sophisticated NLP capabilities powering next‑gen AI applications.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in NLP, deep transformer knowledge, and a proven track record deploying production systems. Cloud and distributed computing experience is highly desirable.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s in CS, Computational Linguistics, AI, or related field with NLP focus.
• 10+ years in NLP, with substantial work on large language models and generative AI.
• Proven track record designing and deploying production NLP systems.
• Deep knowledge of transformers (BERT, GPT, T5) and sequence models.
• Strong software development, cloud experience, and distributed computing.

Responsabilités

• Lead research, design, and implementation of advanced NLP models focused on generative AI and LLMs.
• Develop and fine-tune transformer architectures for varied NLP tasks.
• Architect scalable NLP pipelines capable of handling large text data.
• Conduct research on novel NLP techniques and benchmark rigorously.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to integrate NLP into products.
• Mentor junior engineers and researchers in NLP best practices.
• Evaluate models for performance, efficiency, and ethics; publish and contribute IP.
• Advocate new NLP technologies across the organization.

Connaissances

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Leadership/mentoring

Formation

PhD or Master’s in CS / Computational Linguistics / AI with NLP specialization

Outils

Python

Hugging Face Transformers

spaCy

NLTK

TensorFlow / PyTorch

AWS / Azure / GCP

Description du poste

Placements24 is seeking a distinguished Principal NLP Engineer to drive innovation in generative AI. This remote role requires occasional collaboration, with the primary team based in Rustenburg, North West. You will lead R&D on sophisticated NLP capabilities powering next‑gen AI applications.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in NLP, deep transformer knowledge, and a proven track record deploying production systems. Cloud and distributed computing experience is highly desirable.