Senior NLP Researcher — Remote, Flexible, Equity

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote role

Competitive salary

Equity options

Home office budget

Professional development budget

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Senior AI Researcher specializing in NLP to join their fully remote research team. You will push boundaries in language understanding and generation, publish in top venues, and mentor junior researchers.

The role offers equity options, flexible hours, comprehensive benefits, and the chance to collaborate with a globally distributed team on cutting-edge NLP problems.

Qualifications

• PhD required with a strong NLP focus.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on NLP/ML research.
• Proven publication record in top AI/NLP venues.
• Strong Python and DL framework skills.
• Experience with large language models and transformers.

Responsibilities

• Conduct advanced NLP research including sentiment analysis, text generation, translation, and QA.
• Develop and implement novel NLP models using state-of-the-art DL techniques.
• Design experiments to evaluate model performance and identify improvements.
• Publish findings at top AI conferences and journals.
• Collaborate with engineering to deploy research prototypes into production.
• Mentor junior researchers and shape the team's research strategy.
• Stay updated with global NLP developments.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Mentoring

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science / AI / Computational Linguistics (NLP focus)

Tools

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

LLMs

Transformer models

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Senior AI Researcher specializing in NLP to join their fully remote research team. You will push boundaries in language understanding and generation, publish in top venues, and mentor junior researchers.

The role offers equity options, flexible hours, comprehensive benefits, and the chance to collaborate with a globally distributed team on cutting-edge NLP problems.