Senior NLP Engineer — Build Next-Gen Text AI

Placements24; Midrand; Hybrid; ZAR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Performance bonuses

Health and wellness benefits

Professional development and training

Collaborative work environment

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP to join our client in Midrand. You will design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge AI models powering sentiment analysis, text summarization, and conversational AI across business domains.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers, advance capabilities, and contribute to future AI technology within a forward-thinking organization that supports growth and exploration of new techniques.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement state-of-the-art NLP models and algorithms using deep learning frameworks.
• Conduct thorough data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation for various text-based AI tasks.
• Collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to integrate ML models into production systems and applications.
• Stay abreast of the latest research and advancements in NLP and machine learning, applying them to improve existing solutions.
• Design and execute experiments to test hypotheses and optimize model performance, ensuring robustness and scalability.

Skills

NLP expertise

Deep learning

Python programming

Model deployment

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence or related field

PhD in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence or related field

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

scikit-learn

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP to join our client in Midrand. You will design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge AI models powering sentiment analysis, text summarization, and conversational AI across business domains.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers, advance capabilities, and contribute to future AI technology within a forward-thinking organization that supports growth and exploration of new techniques.