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Lead Natural Language Processing Engineer
Remote Full-time 7-10 years Bachelor's Degree
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We are looking for a lead NLP engineer to own a language workstream and the engineers in it. You will set the quality bar for what is allowed to face users, own the data strategy behind it, and revisit the build-versus-fine-tune-versus-buy decision as the model landscape keeps moving.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead an NLP workstream: scope, sequencing, staffing, and delivery commitments.
- Own the quality bar for language systems in production and the evidence required before something ships.
- Coach the engineers on your workstream, and review their evaluation design as closely as their code.
- Decide the build, fine-tune, or buy split, and revisit it as the model landscape changes.
- Stay hands-on for the hardest language problems.
- Own the text data strategy: sourcing, annotation budget, licensing, and retention.
- Agree contracts and priorities with product, ML engineering, and data engineering leads.
- Report honest quality numbers to leadership, including where the system reliably fails.
Skills & Qualifications
- 7-10 years in NLP, including leading engineers.
- Expert-level NLP across extraction, classification, retrieval, and generation.
- Judgment about model choice under real cost, latency, and quality constraints.
- Ability to plan and sequence work whose research outcome is uncertain.
- Coaching and review practice with engineers at different levels.
- Experience operating language services in production, including incident response.
- Clear stakeholder communication about what a language system can and cannot promise.
Nice to Have
- Building and running an annotation operation.
- Turkish-language product experience at scale.
- Multi-client delivery in a consulting setting.
- Handling text under regulatory constraints: personal data, retention, and auditability.
What You'll Gain
- Competitive salary.
- Fully remote — work from wherever you're most productive.
- Annual learning budget for books, courses, and conferences.
- Top-tier hardware and software tooling.
- Private health insurance and flexible time off.
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