Entry-Level NLP Engineer

Description

Entry-Level NLP Engineer (Remote)

🌍 Join a Purpose-Driven Mission in Natural Language Processing

Imagine launching your career in an environment that values curiosity, inclusivity, and human-centered innovation. As an Entry-Level NLP Engineer, you’ll contribute to meaningful projects that make digital communication more innovative, accessible, and human. If you’re passionate about language, machine learning, and building tools that empower people from all walks of life, we’d love to hear your story.

Here, your voice matters. So does your background. We believe that the best ideas emerge from a mosaic of lived experiences. That’s why we nurture a culture where every team member feels heard, respected, and supported in their journey.

💡 About the Role

As an Entry-Level NLP Engineer, you’ll help design and implement solutions that enable machines to understand and process human language. You’ll work with data scientists, product designers, and engineers to bring language-aware applications to life—tools that support everything from chatbots and recommendation engines to inclusive voice assistants.

This fully remote position offers flexibility, mentorship, and exposure to real-world problems in a collaborative, welcoming environment.

🤝 What You'll Be Doing

NLP Model Development

  • Assist in building and fine-tuning machine learning models for natural language understanding and generation.
  • Preprocess and clean diverse text datasets to prepare them for analysis and model training
  • Experiment with transformer models, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and intent classification

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work closely with cross-disciplinary teams to align NLP capabilities with broader product goals.
  • Contribute to discussions on ethical AI, language fairness, and algorithmic transparency.
  • Participate in weekly team syncs, pair programming sessions, and brainstorming sprints.

Testing & Optimization

  • Develop unit tests and model evaluation metrics to ensure system reliability
  • Support A/B testing efforts to validate improvements and performance benchmarks
  • Monitor model behavior across different user demographics to ensure equity and inclusivity

🧠 Tools & Technologies You’ll Explore

  • Languages: Python, JavaScript
  • Libraries: Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, NLTK, TensorFlow, PyTorch
  • Tools: GitHub, Jupyter Notebooks, VS Code, Docker
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
  • Data Frameworks: Pandas, NumPy, SQL

🧭 What Sets Our Culture Apart

We believe tech thrives when people do. Our team embodies the spirit of community, where collaboration isn’t just a buzzword but a shared daily practice. Your ideas won’t sit in a backlog; they’ll shape how we build systems and serve users.

Whether celebrating small wins on Slack or gathering virtually for cultural share-outs, we’re all about creating belonging. Empathy fuels our decision-making, from junior contributors to senior leadership.

Our team proudly includes people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, veterans, caregivers, and professionals transitioning from other fields. We’ve supported working parents re-entering tech, engineers with non-traditional backgrounds, and teammates navigating disability accommodations.

🧳 What You Bring to the Table

Core Qualifications

  • A strong foundation in computational linguistics, computer science, or a related discipline
  • Familiarity with NLP fundamentals such as tokenization, embeddings, and language modeling
  • Understanding of statistical analysis and basic machine learning concepts
  • A curious, solution-driven approach paired with a genuine openness to constructive input and personal development

Bonus Points (Not Required)

  • Experience with multilingual corpora or low-resource language processing
  • Projects showcasing your skills in text analytics or voice applications
  • Contributions to open-source projects or technical blogs in the NLP domain

🌈 We Celebrate Diversity

We are a proud equal opportunity employer. We don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it. Our commitment is to foster a team that mirrors the richness of human experiences and diverse perspectives. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds—including those with disabilities, individuals from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups, LGBTQIA+ individuals, veterans, and others whose voices have historically been underrepresented.

We also strive to create a hiring process that is accessible and welcoming. Let us know if we can do anything to accommodate your needs.

🌱 Growth Opportunities

This role is a springboard into the world of applied AI. You'll learn how inclusive technologies are shaped, how interdisciplinary teams function in the real world, and how impactful careers are built from the ground up.

You’ll gain:

  • One-on-one mentorship with experienced NLP engineers
  • Access to a community of learners and builders
  • Opportunities to attend conferences, workshops, and industry panels
  • Exposure to both research and production environments

🚀 Ready to Launch Your Career?

If you believe in the power of language to connect people and dreams of shaping a fairer tech future, we’d be thrilled to connect. Come as you are and help us design tools that speak to everyone.

Apply today to become part of a supportive, creative, and impact-driven team!