NLP Engineer

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 * Developing and maintaining Python-based NLP and document-processing services * Extracting and processing information from Word documents, PDFs and unstructured text * Working with NLP techniques such as information extraction, classification, pattern matching and entity extraction * Investigating and resolving issues in a live production environment * Debugging, testing and releasing fixes * Contributing to new document-intelligence functionality * Working with modern LLM technology alongside more traditional NLP approaches What we're looking for * Strong commercial Python experience * Hands-on Natural Language Processing experience * Experience with document extraction or unstructured text * Experience working on live production software * Good understanding of debugging, testing and release processes * Experience with tools such as spaCy, NLTK, NER or equivalent NLP technologies Useful but not essential: * LLM / Generative AI exposure * AWS * Elasticsearch / OpenSearch * OCR * C# / .NET * 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

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