About this role
SRHIN is a nonprofit focused on improving access to healthcare information and services in Africa, using advocacy, research and technology. They are seeking an NLP Engineer to design and develop natural language processing solutions that support data analysis, research and digital health initiatives. The role is based in Ibadan, Oyo, and is full-time. The successful candidate will work with the research team to apply NLP techniques to health and social research questions, and will be responsible for model development, data preprocessing and maintaining reproducible workflows.
What you would do
- Develop and fine-tune NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, information extraction and related tasks
- Pre-process and analyse large volumes of unstructured text data such as survey responses, health records and community feedback
- Collaborate with the research team to apply NLP techniques to health and social research questions
- Evaluate and improve model performance and accuracy
- Document methodologies and maintain reproducible workflows
What they are asking for
- Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Data Science or a related field
- Minimum of 2 years' experience in NLP or related machine learning work
- Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries/frameworks (e.g., spaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face Transformers)
- Strong understanding of language modelling and text data pipelines
- Experience applying NLP in health or social science contexts is an advantage
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