Senior NLP Research Engineer (Remote) | Transform Language AI

Placements24; Sandton; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Retirement plan

Professional development support

Flexible schedule & generous PTO

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior AI Research Engineer specializing in NLP to join a fully remote engineering team. You will design and deploy advanced NLP models for tasks like translation, summarization, sentiment analysis, and conversational AI, while collaborating with a global team.

The role requires a strong NLP background, 5+ years of experience, and expertise in PyTorch or TensorFlow. Remote work and international collaboration are core to this opportunity.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree with an emphasis on NLP.
• 5+ years of hands-on NLP development and deployment.
• Proficiency with PyTorch or TensorFlow and NLP libraries.
• Experience with LLMs and cloud ML platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize NLP models and algorithms.
• Train and evaluate NLP models on large text datasets.
• Collaborate with product and software teams to ship NLP features.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to research.

Skills

NLP expertise

Python

Problem solving

Independent worker

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in CS/AI/NLP

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face Transformers

spaCy

NLTK

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior AI Research Engineer specializing in NLP to join a fully remote engineering team. You will design and deploy advanced NLP models for tasks like translation, summarization, sentiment analysis, and conversational AI, while collaborating with a global team.

The role requires a strong NLP background, 5+ years of experience, and expertise in PyTorch or TensorFlow. Remote work and international collaboration are core to this opportunity.