Senior NLP Engineer - Hybrid Work, Advanced Language Tech

Placements24; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary incentives

Health benefits

Growth opportunities

Cutting-edge tools

Collaborative culture

Hybrid work Pretoria

Training programs

Employee assistance

Job summary

Placements24 in Pretoria, South Africa, seeks a Senior NLP Engineer to advance language understanding models powering cutting-edge AI applications.

You will design and deploy NLP models, fine-tune transformers, process large text datasets, and collaborate with product teams to ship production-ready solutions.

The role offers a hybrid work arrangement in Pretoria with opportunities for growth, research access, and a strong focus on responsible AI.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a related field.
• 5+ years hands-on NLP experience.
• Proficiency in Python with NLP libraries such as spaCy, NLTK, Transformers.
• Strong understanding of TensorFlow and PyTorch for NLP.
• Experience with transformer-based models (BERT, GPT) and fine-tuning.
• Familiarity with data preprocessing techniques for text data.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for training and deployment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and strong communication.
• Ability to thrive in a hybrid work environment in Pretoria.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy advanced NLP models and algorithms.
• Fine-tune state-of-the-art deep learning models for NLP tasks (text generation, summarization, translation).
• Process and analyze large volumes of text data to improve model performance.
• Collaborate with product managers and software engineers to integrate NLP capabilities into client-facing products.
• Develop and maintain NLP pipelines including tokenization, parsing, and feature extraction.
• Evaluate and benchmark NLP models, identify improvements and optimizations.
• Stay current with latest NLP research and advancements.
• Contribute to reusable NLP libraries and tools.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge within the team.

Job description

Placements24 in Pretoria, South Africa, seeks a Senior NLP Engineer to advance language understanding models powering cutting-edge AI applications.

You will design and deploy NLP models, fine-tune transformers, process large text datasets, and collaborate with product teams to ship production-ready solutions.

The role offers a hybrid work arrangement in Pretoria with opportunities for growth, research access, and a strong focus on responsible AI.