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Hausa NLP Data Scientist (Remote)
Advancing Health for Humanitarian Support Initiative (AIDHealth Inc.)
About this role
AIDHealth is seeking a Hausa NLP Data Scientist for a part-time, remote role based in Nigeria. The position targets candidates with strong experience in applied NLP and transformer models, particularly for Hausa language data, and requires fluency in Hausa and English.
What you would do
- Benchmark candidate listening platforms for Hausa content capture.
- Fine-tune AfroXLMR or AfriBERTa class models on project-coded Hausa data.
- Automate a coding category once the model reaches macro-F1 score of 0.80 or higher against human coding.
- Monitor model accuracy monthly and retrain when performance drifts.
- Perform time-series analyses and comparisons across study phases.
- Maintain a secure, encrypted data warehouse and project code repository.
What they are asking for
- MSc or higher in Computer Science, NLP, Data Science, Statistics or Computational Linguistics.
- At least 3 years of professional experience in applied NLP or machine learning.
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning transformer models.
- Experience with African or low-resource languages, ideally Hausa.
- Strong Python skills (Hugging Face, pandas, scikit-learn) and working knowledge of SQL.
- Native Hausa speaker with fluent English.
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