Senior NLP Engineer - Remote, Transform Language AI

Placements24; Mtubatuba Local Municipality; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Fully remote work

Health & wellness benefits

Professional development budget

Stock options

Global team events

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior NLP Engineer to join a fully remote team developing AI-driven language tools. You will design, build, and deploy NLP models to understand, interpret, and generate human language, impacting products that enhance user interaction.

You will work with data scientists and engineers, explore Transformers (BERT, GPT), optimize for performance, mentor junior engineers, document experiments, and stay abreast of NLP research.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, AI, or related field.
• Proven experience in developing and deploying NLP models in production.
• Deep understanding of NLP concepts, algorithms and techniques.
• Expertise in Python and NLP libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Strong experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and their applications.
• Excellent remote collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement state-of-the-art NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, NER, translation, and text generation.
• Design and build robust NLP pipelines for preprocessing, feature extraction, and evaluation.
• Collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to integrate NLP into production systems.
• Explore latest NLP techniques including Transformers (BERT, GPT) and RNNs.
• Optimize NLP models for performance, scalability, and efficiency.
• Contribute to development of language understanding and generation capabilities.
• Stay current with research and industry trends in NLP and AI.
• Mentor junior engineers and document methodologies and experiments.

Skills

NLP expertise

Python

Deep learning

Transformers

LLMs

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/NLP

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Transformers (HuggingFace)

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior NLP Engineer to join a fully remote team developing AI-driven language tools. You will design, build, and deploy NLP models to understand, interpret, and generate human language, impacting products that enhance user interaction.

You will work with data scientists and engineers, explore Transformers (BERT, GPT), optimize for performance, mentor junior engineers, document experiments, and stay abreast of NLP research.