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NLP Engineer

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Salary: £45,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:
  • 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
  • LLM / Generative AI exposure is useful but not essential
  • AWS is useful but not essential
  • Elasticsearch / OpenSearch is useful but not essential
  • OCR is useful but not essential
  • C# / .NET is useful but not essential
  • Experience in LegalTech, FinTech, RegTech or other document-heavy environments is useful but not essential
Responsibilities:
  • Develop and maintain Python-based NLP and document-processing services
  • Extract and process information from Word documents, PDFs and unstructured text
  • Work with NLP techniques such as information extraction, classification, pattern matching and entity extraction
  • Investigate and resolve issues in a live production environment
  • Debug, test and release fixes
  • Contribute to new document-intelligence functionality
  • Work with modern LLM technology alongside more traditional NLP approaches
Technologies:
  • AI
  • AWS
  • OpenSearch
  • C#
  • ElasticSearch
  • LLM
  • Python
  • ASP.NET
  • Cloud

More:

We are a growing SaaS technology company building and supporting production NLP and document-processing technology. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on improving how our 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. This is not a research or proof-of-concept role; we are looking for someone who enjoys applying NLP to real software used by real customers. The salary is up to £70,000 and the role is fully remote across the UK.

last updated 35 week of 2026

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