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Nlp Engineer

Slum and Rural Health Initiative·Oyo, nigeria·Full Time·Internship
EngineeringFull TimeInternship
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Role Overview

  • Design and develop natural language processing solutions to support SRHIN's data analysis, research, and digital health initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

  • 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 (e.g., survey responses, health records, 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

Required Qualifications & Experience

  • 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

Key skills

BA/BSc/HNDMBA/MSc/MAPhD/Fellowship
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At a glance

Company

Slum and Rural Health Initiative

Location

Oyo, nigeria

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Valid until

Not specified

Created

October 15, 2026

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