Senior ML Engineer: NLP & Deep Learning

Placements24; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonus

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement plan

Learning and development

Randburg office

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Randburg, Gauteng, focused on NLP and deep learning. You will architect, build and deploy scalable NLP models powering cutting edge applications, collaborating with data scientists and software engineers.

The role demands strong coding practices and cloud experience. As a senior contributor, you will mentor juniors, improve ML pipelines, and stay current with research in NLP and DL.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, AI, or related field.
• 5+ years of machine learning engineering experience with NLP and DL focus.
• Proficiency in Python and ML libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, and Hugging Face Transformers.
• Strong understanding of NLP techniques, language models and text representations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy NLP ML models (classification, sentiment, entity recognition).
• Implement deep learning architectures (Transformers, LSTMs, CNNs) for NLP tasks.
• Build robust data pipelines for NLP model training and evaluation.
• Optimize model performance for accuracy, latency and resources.

Skills

NLP expertise

Deep learning

Python

Transformers

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

Git

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Randburg, Gauteng, focused on NLP and deep learning. You will architect, build and deploy scalable NLP models powering cutting edge applications, collaborating with data scientists and software engineers.

The role demands strong coding practices and cloud experience. As a senior contributor, you will mentor juniors, improve ML pipelines, and stay current with research in NLP and DL.