[Remote] NLP Engineer - Remote USA - $160k - $200k Base

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harnham is a fast-growing AI company transforming one of the world’s largest and most operationally complex industries through intelligent automation. They are seeking an NLP Engineer to build and enhance search and retrieval systems, process multi-format documents, and develop domain-specific language models.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance search and retrieval systems using advanced NLP and information retrieval techniques.
• Process and analyze multi-format documents (text, tables, images) to extract and structure key insights.
• Design and implement entity extraction, relationship modeling, and text classification pipelines.
• Develop efficient indexing and embedding strategies to power high-performance semantic search.
• Conduct experiments to evaluate, fine-tune, and improve model accuracy and robustness.
• Develop and maintain domain-specific language models for specialized use cases.

Skills

• MS/PhD in Computer Science, NLP, Information Retrieval, or related field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade NLP or ML systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python, ML frameworks, and libraries such as spaCy, Hugging Face, or NLTK.
• Experience with search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, graph databases, vector databases).
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines, including document retrieval, embedding stores, and LLM integration.
• Familiarity with LLM-based applications and modern AI toolchains.
• Experience training or fine-tuning proprietary algorithms.
• Exposure to agentic AI systems or multi-step reasoning frameworks.
• Interest in applying AI to real-world operational challenges.

Company Overview

• Harnham has actively chosen to focus on Data and Analytics. It was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.harnham.com/us.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Harnham has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.