Senior NLP Data Scientist - Text Analytics & AI Impact

Placements24; Rustenburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus structure

Professional development

Health insurance

Cutting-edge NLP projects

Collaborative team culture

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Data Scientist (NLP) in Rustenburg to unlock insights from unstructured text, build advanced NLP models, and deploy solutions across the business. You will handle large text datasets, design experiments, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate NLP into client-facing and internal tools.

The role demands a strong background in NLP, ML, and statistics, with proficiency in Python and the associated data science libraries.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Linguistics, or a related field.
• Demonstrable NLP experience with NLTK, spaCy, Transformers (Hugging Face).
• Proficiency in Python and libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn.
• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms, statistical modeling, and experimental design.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy advanced NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and QA.
• Clean, transform, and analyze large unstructured text datasets.
• Design and run experiments to validate models and hypotheses.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate NLP into client apps and internal tools.
• Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders with clear visuals.

Skills

NLP

Text analytics

Statistical modeling

Experimental design

Communication

Education

Master's or PhD in Data Science/CS/Statistics/Linguistics

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Transformers (Hugging Face)

Python

Pandas

NumPy

Scikit-learn

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Data Scientist (NLP) in Rustenburg to unlock insights from unstructured text, build advanced NLP models, and deploy solutions across the business. You will handle large text datasets, design experiments, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate NLP into client-facing and internal tools.

The role demands a strong background in NLP, ML, and statistics, with proficiency in Python and the associated data science libraries.