Natural Language Processing Engineer

Senior NLP Engineer | NYC 3 day/week in their Lower Manhattan office | up to $260kWe're working with a well-funded startup with strong product-market fit and backing from top-tier VCs. Having proven their product in the market, they're now focused on scaling. This role is an opportunity to shape how advanced NLP systems get designed, built, and shipped to production at a key inflection point for the company.What you'll doEnhance search and retrieval systems using advanced NLP techniquesBuild pipelines that process and analyse unstructured data, including text, tables, and documentsDesign and deploy entity extraction and text classification modelsImprove context-aware systems by integrating embeddings, retrieval, and external data sourcesExperiment with and fine-tune models to improve robustness and accuracyContribute to language models and agentic LLM applications tailored for real-world useWhat you'll bringStrong Python engineering skills and experience with NLP/ML frameworks such as Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK, PyTorch, or TensorFlowHands-on experience with information retrieval and search technologies, including vector embeddings, graph databases, and ElasticsearchFamiliarity with RAG techniques and building LLM-powered applicationsAround 2+ years working with NLP in production environmentsSolid understanding of how to take models from prototype to scalable systemsBonus: experience training or fine-tuning proprietary models, or developing complex agentic workflowsWhat's on offer$150k to $260k base + equityFully covered healthcareUnlimited PTOAnnual allowance for learning and developmentIf you want to help scale applied NLP systems beyond research into real-world impact, this is the opportunity.