Senior Remote NLP Engineer — Build Cutting-Edge Language AI

Placements24; Pretoria; Hybrid; ZAR 2,297,000 - 2,953,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full remote

Professional development budget

Home office stipend

Stock options

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

WhatJobs Direct seeks a remote Senior AI/ML Engineer focused on NLP to architect, train, and deploy advanced language models. You will own end-to-end NLP pipelines and mentor junior engineers in a fast-moving, remote-first environment.

You’ll work with PyTorch/TensorFlow and Hugging Face, optimize models for scale, and collaborate with product teams to translate research into real-world NLP solutions across global products.

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI, Linguistics, or related quantitative field.
• Proven experience in developing and deploying NLP models and applications.
• Strong proficiency in Python and NLP libraries (NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face).

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and deploy NLP models (text classification, NER, sentiment analysis, MT).
• Develop scalable NLP pipelines and infrastructure.
• Implement and fine-tune large language models (LLMs).
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to define NLP requirements.
• Optimize NLP models for performance and accuracy.
• Stay current with NLP research and advancements.
• Mentor junior AI/ML engineers on NLP best practices.

Skills

NLP model development

Python

Transformers

Deep learning

MLOps

Git

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Transformers (HF)

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

WhatJobs Direct seeks a remote Senior AI/ML Engineer focused on NLP to architect, train, and deploy advanced language models. You will own end-to-end NLP pipelines and mentor junior engineers in a fast-moving, remote-first environment.

You’ll work with PyTorch/TensorFlow and Hugging Face, optimize models for scale, and collaborate with product teams to translate research into real-world NLP solutions across global products.