Avanti Recruitment is working with a growing SaaS technology company to recruit a Mid-Level NLP Engineer to join a specialist team building and supporting production NLP and document-processing technology.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on improving how a live software platform extracts and processes information from complex documents.
You will work closely with a Senior NLP Specialist, initially supporting the existing production environment and gradually taking ownership of larger features and new functionality.
What you'll be doing
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Developing and maintaining Python-based NLP and document-processing services
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Extracting and processing information from Word documents, PDFs and unstructured text
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Working with NLP techniques such as information extraction, classification, pattern matching and entity extraction
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Investigating and resolving issues in a live production environment
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Debugging, testing and releasing fixes
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Contributing to new document-intelligence functionality
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Working with modern LLM technology alongside more traditional NLP approaches
What we're looking for
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Strong commercial Python experience
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Hands-on Natural Language Processing experience
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Experience with document extraction or unstructured text
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Experience working on live production software
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Good understanding of debugging, testing and release processes
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Experience with tools such as spaCy, NLTK, NER or equivalent NLP technologies
Useful but not essential:
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LLM / Generative AI exposure
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AWS
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Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
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OCR
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C# / .NET
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LegalTech, FinTech, RegTech or other document-heavy environments
This is not a research or proof-of-concept role. The team is looking for someone who enjoys applying NLP to real software used by real customers.
Salary:
Up to £70,000
Location: Fully remote across the UK
If you have commercial Python and NLP experience and enjoy solving practical document-processing problems, please apply for further information
