NLP Data Scientist – LLM

Job in Northern, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA

Listing for: Yakamconsulting

Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-12

Job specializations:

IT/Tech
Data Scientist, AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Machine Learning/ ML Engineer, Data Analyst

Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 190000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 190000.00 YEAR

As a Senior NLP and LLM Data Scientist, you will be a key player in designing, implementing, and optimizing solutions that analyze and understand human language r work will involve utilizing state-of-the-art NLP models and LLMs to extract valuable information, generate insights, and enable decision-making from vast and complex textual datasets. Additionally, you will lead and mentor a team of data scientists and contribute to cutting-edge research and development projects in the field of language understanding and generation.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and oversee the development and implementation of NLP models and algorithms for text data analysis.

Utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-3, BERT, or similar, for various NLP tasks.

Conduct data preprocessing, cleaning, and feature engineering to prepare text data for analysis.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project objectives and requirements.

Utilize NLP and LLM techniques to extract insights, sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and more.

Mentor and provide guidance to junior data scientists within the team.

Stay updated with the latest advancements in NLP, LLMs, and AI research.

Lead and contribute to research and development projects related to language understanding and generation.

Requirements:

Master's or Ph.D. in Data Science, Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, or a related field.
Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in NLP and LLMs, with a strong track record of successful projects.
Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python.
Familiarity with NLP libraries and frameworks (e.g., NLTK, spaCy, Transformers).
Experience in working with Large Language Models is highly desirable.
Solid understanding of machine learning and deep learning techniques.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Strong communication, leadership, and teamwork abilities.
A passion for staying at the forefront of NLP and LLM advancements.