NLP Engineer

Slum and Rural Health Initiative is a nonprofit organization that started operations in 2017 and is officially registered in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and The Gambia. It improves access to healthcare information and services in Africa, especially in vulnerable and underserved communities, using the tools of advocacy, research, and technology. We are a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, social scientists, information technology experts, researchers, graphic designers, and social entrepreneurs who are passionate about changing the sad narrative of healthcare information and service delivery in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and other parts of Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: NLP Engineer

Locations: Ibadan, Oyo
Employment Type: Full-Time

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