Remote Principal NLP Research Scientist

Placements24; Rustenburg; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote role

Professional development & conferences

Access to cutting-edge compute

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Principal NLP Research Scientist for a fully remote role to lead advanced NLP research, language modeling, and production-ready systems that push the boundaries of language understanding. You will design rigorous experiments, publish in top AI conferences and journals, and mentor junior researchers while collaborating with engineers to deploy research prototypes.

The ideal candidate holds a PhD with 10+ years in NLP, deep learning expertise (Transformers, LSTMs), and a

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field with a strong focus on NLP.
• 10+ years of NLP research and development with a track record of impactful contributions.
• Proven experience leading research projects and mentoring teams.
• Deep theoretical understanding and practical expertise in deep learning models for NLP (Transformers, LSTMs, RNNs).

Responsibilities

• Lead research initiatives in NLP areas such as text generation, sentiment analysis, QA, and MT.
• Develop and implement novel NLP algorithms and models pushing the state-of-the-art.
• Design and conduct rigorous experiments to evaluate model performance and validate hypotheses.
• Publish findings in top AI/NLP conferences and journals.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy research prototypes into production systems.
• Mentor and guide junior researchers and engineers for scientific excellence.
• Stay abreast of latest NLP and deep learning advancements.
• Identify new research opportunities and contribute to long-term strategy.
• Present research findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

NLP research

Deep learning

Python

Hugging Face Transformers

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Publications

Mentoring

Education

Ph.D. in CS/Computational Linguistics/AI

Tools

Hugging Face Transformers

spaCy

NLTK

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Principal NLP Research Scientist for a fully remote role to lead advanced NLP research, language modeling, and production-ready systems that push the boundaries of language understanding. You will design rigorous experiments, publish in top AI conferences and journals, and mentor junior researchers while collaborating with engineers to deploy research prototypes.

The ideal candidate holds a PhD with 10+ years in NLP, deep learning expertise (Transformers, LSTMs), and a