Senior NLP Engineer - Lead Scalable Text Intelligence

Placements24; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,100,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Professional development

Conferences access

Sandton team collaboration

Job summary

Placements24 in Sandton, South Africa, seeks a Senior NLP Engineer to design, build, and deploy advanced NLP models for sentiment analysis, text classification, and information extraction. You will translate linguistic challenges into scalable software solutions within a cross-functional team.

You will lead critical projects, collaborate with data scientists and product managers, and stay at the forefront of NLP research in a dynamic tech environment.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of professional NLP engineering experience.
• Strong Python coding skills and experience with NLP libraries.
• Experience with ML/DL frameworks and large-scale text data processing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art NLP models and algorithms.
• Process and analyze large volumes of text data for insights and features.
• Collaborate with product managers and data scientists to define NLP features.
• Optimize NLP systems for performance, scalability, and accuracy in production.
• Stay updated with the latest NLP research and technologies.

Skills

Python

NLP libraries

SpaCy

NLTK

Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Text processing

Education

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

Tools

Hugging Face Transformers

TensorFlow

PyTorch

SpaCy

NLTK

Job description

Placements24 in Sandton, South Africa, seeks a Senior NLP Engineer to design, build, and deploy advanced NLP models for sentiment analysis, text classification, and information extraction. You will translate linguistic challenges into scalable software solutions within a cross-functional team.

You will lead critical projects, collaborate with data scientists and product managers, and stay at the forefront of NLP research in a dynamic tech environment.