Remote Senior NLP/AI Engineer - Text & Language Models

Placements24; Soweto; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote across SA

Professional development allowance

Performance bonuses

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Placements24 seeks a Remote Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP to drive advanced language models for its technology client in South Africa. The role is fully remote and nationwide within SA, focusing on language understanding, generation, and text analysis.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in AI/ML with NLP, deep learning expertise (Transformers, LSTMs), and proficiency in Python and NLP libraries, with cloud/MLOps experience to deploy models at scale.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, or related field with NLP focus.
• Minimum 5 years of professional AI/ML experience with emphasis on NLP.
• Strong background in deep learning models for NLP (LSTMs, GRUs, Transformers).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, NER, and QA.
• Build and optimize NLU and NLG systems.
• Develop robust data pipelines for text data preprocessing and model training.
• Implement and manage MLOps for NLP models in production.

Skills

NLP development

Deep learning for NLP

Python

NLP libraries

MLOps

Education

Masters/PhD in CS/AI/Linguistics (NLP)

Tools

spaCy

NLTK

Hugging Face Transformers

Job description

Placements24 seeks a Remote Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP to drive advanced language models for its technology client in South Africa. The role is fully remote and nationwide within SA, focusing on language understanding, generation, and text analysis.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in AI/ML with NLP, deep learning expertise (Transformers, LSTMs), and proficiency in Python and NLP libraries, with cloud/MLOps experience to deploy models at scale.