Senior NLP ML Engineer (Remote) - Text & Language Models

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Fully remote role

Professional development

Cutting-edge tools

Job summary

Placements24, on behalf of a leader in AI and Emerging Technologies, seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a strong NLP focus to join a distributed, remote-first team. You will develop, deploy, and scale advanced NLP models and applications driving innovation across domains.

The role requires deep knowledge of NLP techniques, Python, and modern DL frameworks, plus experience with Transformers libraries.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in CS, AI, or related field.
• Proven NLP model development and deployment experience.
• Strong Python skills and NLP libraries (NLTK, SpaCy, Transformers).
• Experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Keras.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement advanced NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and machine translation.
• Design and build scalable ML pipelines for NLP data processing and model training.
• Collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to integrate NLP models into production systems.
• Research and experiment with state-of-the-art NLP techniques and libraries (Transformers, BERT, GPT).
• Optimize NLP models for performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Contribute to the end-to-end lifecycle of ML models, from experimentation to deployment and monitoring.
• Stay updated on the latest NLP research and industry trends, and champion their adoption.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code and comprehensive documentation.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.

Skills

Python

NLP techniques

Deep learning

Education

Master's degree in CS

Ph.D. in AI/Computational Linguistics

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

NLTK

SpaCy

Transformers

Job description

Placements24, on behalf of a leader in AI and Emerging Technologies, seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a strong NLP focus to join a distributed, remote-first team. You will develop, deploy, and scale advanced NLP models and applications driving innovation across domains.

The role requires deep knowledge of NLP techniques, Python, and modern DL frameworks, plus experience with Transformers libraries.