Principal NLP Scientist

Via agency · Fox HR Consulting Ltd.

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Budapest

Our international partner is looking for a Principal NLP Scientist to lead the design and evolution of advanced Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model solutions used in real-world business applications. This is a senior expert role for someone who enjoys combining research with hands-on engineering.

Tasks

  • Design and develop production-ready NLP and LLM solutions
  • Build intelligent systems for text classification, named entity recognition, semantic search, document understanding, and information extraction
  • Evaluate, fine-tune, and optimize modern language models
  • Design retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions and semantic retrieval architectures
  • Work with structured and unstructured business data to improve AI-assisted workflows
  • Define model evaluation methodologies, success metrics, and validation standards
  • Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, product managers, and annotation teams throughout the entire development lifecycle
  • Research emerging AI technologies and translate promising approaches into practical business solutions
  • requirements_list
  • PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline or siginificant expereince as a researcher in the field of AI.
  • 5+ years of professional experience in AI, Machine Learning, or Natural Language Processing
  • At least 5 years of practical experience delivering NLP solutions in production environments
  • Strong expertise in Transformer architectures, embeddings, attention mechanisms, fine-tuning, and modern deep learning techniques
  • Hands-on experience with Large Language Models, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and RAG-based applications
  • Solid knowledge of NLP techniques including text classification, information extraction, semantic similarity, text generation, and NER
  • Excellent Python programming skills
  • Strong experience with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers
  • Experience with data preparation, annotation workflows, and model performance evaluation
  • Familiarity with SQL and cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
  • Excellent English communication skills

Posted Oct 16, 2026 · Updated 18 days ago · 0 views