Senior NLP Researcher — Transform Conversational AI

Placements24; Bloemfontein; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Retirement plan

Stock options

Professional development

Job summary

Placements24 in Bloemfontein is seeking a Senior AI Researcher with NLP expertise to advance language understanding and generation. You will design, implement, and evaluate novel NLP models, contributing to high-impact AI products and publications.

The role requires a Ph.D. in a related field, 6+ years of NLP research, and strong experience with DL frameworks and Python. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential in a dynamic research environment.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, AI, Computational Linguistics or related field with NLP focus.
• Minimum 6 years of research experience in NLP with publications in top venues.
• Strong programming and ML fundamentals; experience with DL frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge NLP research on text generation, sentiment analysis, MT and information extraction.
• Design and implement advanced NLP models and algorithms (Transformers, LSTMs).
• Lead development of NLP features from research to prototype and deployment.
• Collaborate with software engineers and PMs to integrate NLP into products.
• Analyze large text datasets and extract meaningful insights.
• Stay updated with AI/NLP advances through literature and conferences.
• Publish findings in top AI/NLP venues; mentor junior researchers.
• Evaluate and benchmark NLP models and systems.

Skills

NLP research

Machine learning

Transformers

Python

Deep learning

Education

PhD in Computer Science/AI/Computational Linguistics

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

spaCy

NLTK

Job description

Placements24 in Bloemfontein is seeking a Senior AI Researcher with NLP expertise to advance language understanding and generation. You will design, implement, and evaluate novel NLP models, contributing to high-impact AI products and publications.

The role requires a Ph.D. in a related field, 6+ years of NLP research, and strong experience with DL frameworks and Python. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential in a dynamic research environment.