Senior NLP Research Scientist - AI Language Modeling

Placements24; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Conference travel

Relocation assistance

Research infrastructure

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Placements24 in South Africa is seeking an accomplished AI Researcher specializing in NLP to advance state‑of‑the‑art language technologies in Paarl, Western Cape.

You will lead original NLP research, develop deep learning models (Transformers, LSTMs, CNNs), and publish results in top conferences while collaborating with engineers to translate findings into product features.

Applicants should hold a PhD or Master’s with 5+ years of NLP experience and a strong publication record.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. or Master’s with a strong NLP focus.
• 5+ years of NLP research experience.
• Publications in ACL/EMNLP/NeurIPS or equivalent.
• Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks.
• Experience with Transformers, LSTMs, and CNNs.

Responsibilities

• Conduct original NLP research across text generation, sentiment analysis, translation, and information extraction.
• Develop and implement novel NLP models with deep learning architectures.
• Experiment with and fine-tune large language models for tasks.
• Analyze large text datasets and identify key features.
• Collaborate with engineers to integrate research into products.
• Evaluate model performance with quantitative and qualitative analyses.
• Stay updated on NLP/AI research trends and publish results.
• Mentor junior researchers and interns in NLP techniques.
• Contribute to strategic NLP direction within the company.

Skills

NLP Research

Deep Learning

Transformers

Python

Academic Publishing

Education

PhD or Master’s (CS/AI/Computational Linguistics)

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

Job description

Placements24 in South Africa is seeking an accomplished AI Researcher specializing in NLP to advance state‑of‑the‑art language technologies in Paarl, Western Cape.

You will lead original NLP research, develop deep learning models (Transformers, LSTMs, CNNs), and publish results in top conferences while collaborating with engineers to translate findings into product features.

Applicants should hold a PhD or Master’s with 5+ years of NLP experience and a strong publication record.