- Pay
- £45–65k
- Where
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, GB · GB · Remote · Remote
- Level
- Mid
Ambitious NLP Engineer wanted to drive real impact in AI & Technology from Nottingham.
Language models are only as good as the engineers refining them, and demand for people who can do that properly has outpaced supply for years.
This business, an established enterprise player of 250+ people, builds AI & Technology products used at genuine scale.
They need an NLP Engineer who can work within structured, well-documented frameworks rather than firefighting from scratch.
Here's what you'll be doing: Design, train and fine-tune NLP models for text classification, entity extraction and language understanding tasks Build and maintain data pipelines that feed clean, labelled data into model training workflows Evaluate model performance against production benchmarks and iterate based on real-world results Work with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into NLP solutions Deploy models into production environments and monitor them for drift and degradation Document approaches, decisions and results so other engineers can pick up your work Here are the skills you'll need: Solid experience with Python and NLP libraries such as spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers or NLTK A working understanding of transformer architectures and modern language modelling techniques Experience training and evaluating machine learning models on real datasets, not just notebooks Comfortable working with established frameworks and clear documentation standards Good communication skills.
You'll need to explain model behaviour to people who aren't engineers A degree in computer science, computational linguistics or a related field (or equivalent experience) Key perks and benefits: £45,000 to £64,500, depending on experience Fully remote working arrangement Private medical and dental insurance Enhanced pension scheme and performance-based bonuses Comprehensive benefits package and structured career development Why pursue a career in AI & Technology?
AI & Technology isn't slowing down, and NLP sits right at the centre of it.
Progress into senior or specialist NLP Engineer roles tends to come quickly for people who deliver, because the skills gap is real and employers know it.
Nottingham has become a genuinely good base for this kind of work too, with a growing tech scene and none of the overheads that come with working in London.
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