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.