Senior NLP AI Scientist (Hybrid) - Pretoria

Placements24; Pretoria; Hybride; ZAR 900 000 - 1 400 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Comprehensive health benefits

Professional development andconference

Hybrid work arrangement in Pretoria

Résumé du poste

Placements24 in Pretoria, Gauteng, seeks a Senior AI Data Scientist with NLP specialization to join a hybrid team. You will develop and deploy NLP models that power smart applications and improve user experiences.

The role requires a master's or PhD and 5+ years in NLP, Python and NLP libraries, and experience with Transformers and cloud platforms. You will mentor juniors and collaborate with engineering and product teams.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in CS, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, or related field.
• 5+ years in data science with a focus on NLP.
• Proficient in Python and NLP libraries: NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers.
• Experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Strong understanding of linguistic theories and computational linguistics concepts.
• Experience with LLMs and practical NLP applications.
• Ability to work with large text datasets and perform feature engineering.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Hybrid work experience and self-management.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, and GCP and big data tech.

Responsabilités

• Develop and deploy NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, NER, and translation.
• Design and evaluate algorithms for language understanding and generation.
• Collaborate with engineering to integrate NLP into product features.
• Process, clean, and analyze large volumes of unstructured text data.
• Stay updated with NLP and deep learning research.
• Experiment with transformer models (BERT, GPT), RNNs, LSTMs.
• Mentor junior data scientists and share knowledge.
• Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to ethics and bias mitigation in NLP models.
• Develop robust evaluation metrics and frameworks for NLP tasks.

Connaissances

NLP experience

Linguistic theory

Analytical skills

Communication

Hybrid work experience

Text data handling

Formation

Master's or Ph.D. in CS/Computational Linguistics/Data Science

Outils

Python

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

AWS

Azure

GCP

Description du poste

Placements24 in Pretoria, Gauteng, seeks a Senior AI Data Scientist with NLP specialization to join a hybrid team. You will develop and deploy NLP models that power smart applications and improve user experiences.

The role requires a master's or PhD and 5+ years in NLP, Python and NLP libraries, and experience with Transformers and cloud platforms. You will mentor juniors and collaborate with engineering and product teams.