Senior NLP Engineering Lead — Stock Options & Growth

Placements24; South Africa; Sur place; ZAR 1 200 000 - 1 900 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Performance bonus structure

Stock options

Professional development

Résumé du poste

Placements24 is seeking a Lead AI Engineer specialized in NLP to guide the design and deployment of advanced NLP systems in George, Western Cape. You will lead a team of engineers, shaping the end-to-end lifecycle from ideation to production and maintaining state-of-the-art language technologies.

The ideal candidate holds a Master’s or PhD in a related field, with 5+ years in NLP and at least 2 years in leadership. Strong Python, Transformers, and cloud experience are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, AI, or related field.
• 5+ years in NLP engineering with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• Strong NLP theory and practice with deep learning models (Transformers, LSTMs, CNNs).
• Proficient in Python and NLP libraries such as spaCy, NLTK, Transformers, scikit-learn.
• Experience with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Proven ability to design, build, and deploy large-scale NLP systems.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for ML workloads.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent.

Responsabilités

• Lead NLP engineers in design, development and deployment of NLP models.
• Define technical roadmap and architectural vision for NLP initiatives.
• Oversee end-to-end NLP projects from ideation to production.
• Develop state-of-the-art algorithms for sentiment, NER, MT, QA.
• Ensure scalability, efficiency and robustness of NLP systems.
• Collaborate with PMs to translate business needs into tech solutions.
• Mentor team members and foster technical excellence.
• Stay current with NLP research trends and open-source projects.
• Engage with the NLP community and contribute where possible.

Connaissances

NLP engineering

Leadership

Python

Deep learning

Transformer models

Formation

Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field

Outils

spaCy

NLTK

Transformers

scikit-learn

PyTorch/TensorFlow

Description du poste

Placements24 is seeking a Lead AI Engineer specialized in NLP to guide the design and deployment of advanced NLP systems in George, Western Cape. You will lead a team of engineers, shaping the end-to-end lifecycle from ideation to production and maintaining state-of-the-art language technologies.

The ideal candidate holds a Master’s or PhD in a related field, with 5+ years in NLP and at least 2 years in leadership. Strong Python, Transformers, and cloud experience are essential for success.