Hire Remote NLP Engineers
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Hire NLP Engineers Who’ve Built Production Language Systems
Text classification that achieves 78% accuracy in a research notebook isn’t the same as a production NER system handling 50,000 documents per hour with sub-100ms latency. The NLP engineers you need have already crossed that gap — building and shipping production language systems for financial services, legal tech, healthcare, and enterprise SaaS.
We match you with senior NLP engineers who’ve deployed transformer-based pipelines, built information extraction systems at scale, and solved the hard production problems: label noise, domain adaptation, multi-language support, and inference optimization under strict latency budgets.
Start in days, not months. Pay 50% less than equivalent US-based NLP talent.
What Our NLP Engineers Build
Information Extraction & Document Intelligence
Named entity recognition, relation extraction, event detection, and document parsing pipelines — processing legal contracts, financial filings, medical records, and enterprise documents at scale.
Text Classification & Sentiment Analysis
Multi-class and multi-label classification systems for content moderation, customer feedback analysis, compliance screening, and intent detection — fine-tuned on domain-specific data with production accuracy targets.
Conversational AI & Dialogue Systems
Task-oriented dialogue systems, intent classification and slot filling pipelines, FAQ matching, and conversational agents built on transformer architectures with retrieval augmentation.
Search & Semantic Retrieval
Dense retrieval systems using bi-encoder architectures (DPR, Sentence-BERT), cross-encoder re-ranking, and hybrid BM25 + dense retrieval — replacing keyword search with semantic understanding.
Machine Translation & Multilingual NLP
Production-grade translation systems fine-tuned for domain-specific terminology. Multilingual models supporting 50+ languages. Cross-lingual transfer learning for low-resource language pairs.
NLP Technology Stack
Frameworks: Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, NLTK, AllenNLP, Flair
Models: BERT, RoBERTa, DeBERTa, T5, BART, XLM-RoBERTa, LLaMA, Mistral
Search & Retrieval: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Weaviate, Pinecone, Qdrant, FAISS
Serving: FastAPI, TorchServe, Triton Inference Server, vLLM, ONNX Runtime
MLOps: MLflow, W&B, DVC, Label Studio, Prodigy
Cloud: AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI, Azure ML
Client Success Story: Legal Contract Intelligence — 91% Reduction in Review Time
A Big Four consulting firm’s legal operations team was manually reviewing thousands of vendor contracts annually to extract key terms, obligations, and risk clauses. Our NLP engineers built a document intelligence pipeline using a fine-tuned DeBERTa model for named entity recognition and a custom relation extraction layer. The system extracted 47 clause types with 94% F1 score on held-out contracts and processed a 30-page contract in under 4 seconds. Manual review time dropped 91%. The system handled a backlog of 15,000 historical contracts in its first week of production.
Client Success Story: Financial News Intelligence — Real-Time Sentiment for Systematic Trading
A systematic trading firm needed real-time sentiment signals from financial news and earnings call transcripts with sub-500ms latency from article publication to signal delivery. Our NLP team built a streaming pipeline using Kafka, a fine-tuned FinBERT model with custom financial entity recognition, and an event-driven signal generation layer. The system processed 8,000+ articles and transcripts daily with 87% sentiment accuracy on financial text versus 71% for general-purpose models. The signals contributed to a measurable improvement in alpha generation for the firm’s equity strategies.
Why Companies Choose Our NLP Engineers
- Domain expertise: Financial, legal, medical, and enterprise NLP — deep domain knowledge beyond general benchmark performance
- Production experience: Every engineer has deployed NLP beyond a Jupyter notebook — they’ve handled serving, monitoring, and model drift
- Full-stack fluency: From data annotation and model training through API serving and monitoring
- 50% cost savings: Senior NLP expertise at a fraction of US market rates
- Fast start: Most engagements begin within 1–2 weeks
Engagement Models
- Individual NLP Engineer — One senior NLP engineer embedded in your team. Ideal for adding information extraction, semantic search, or classification expertise.
- NLP Application Pods (2–4 engineers) — NLP engineer paired with a data engineer and MLOps specialist. Common for teams building document intelligence or search platforms.
- Full NLP Teams (5–15+ engineers) — Complete squads for large-scale language platform builds.
- Contract-to-Hire — Evaluate real output before committing long-term.
How To Vet NLP Engineers
Our vetting identifies engineers who understand language model behavior — not just Hugging Face pipeline calls.
- Technical screening — Transformer architectures (attention, tokenization, positional encoding), fine-tuning strategies, evaluation metrics (F1, precision, recall, BLEU, BERTScore), and production NLP challenges (label noise, class imbalance, domain shift). Over 90% of applicants do not pass this stage.
- System design challenge — Design a production NLP pipeline for a specific use case: contract intelligence, customer support automation, or financial news analysis. Evaluated on accuracy, latency, scalability, and monitoring strategy.
- Live coding session — Fine-tune a transformer model on a provided dataset, evaluate on a test set, and explain trade-off decisions. Assessed on code quality and analytical rigor.
- Communication screening — Explaining model accuracy, precision/recall trade-offs, and failure modes to business stakeholders. We assess this explicitly.
What to Look for When Hiring NLP Engineers
Strong NLP engineers understand why models fail on domain-specific text — and have systematic approaches to fix it.
What strong candidates demonstrate:
- They discuss annotation quality, inter-annotator agreement, and label noise as production-critical concerns
- They’ve fine-tuned transformers on domain-specific data — not just used pre-trained models via API
- They understand evaluation beyond accuracy: F1 per class, confusion matrices, error analysis on failure cases
- They’ve optimized NLP inference for production: ONNX export, quantization, batching strategies
Red flags to watch for:
- Measures NLP performance only with accuracy on a balanced test set — no awareness of class imbalance effects
- Has only used LLM APIs for NLP tasks without understanding when fine-tuned task-specific models are superior
- No experience with data annotation tooling or annotation quality validation
- Can’t discuss domain adaptation strategies for specialized text
Interview questions that reveal real depth:
- “Your NER model achieves 92% F1 on your validation set but 67% F1 on production documents. What do you investigate first?”
- “When would you use a fine-tuned BERT-based classifier versus a zero-shot LLM for a text classification task? What factors drive the decision?”
- “Walk me through how you’d build a legal contract clause extraction system from scratch — data, model choice, evaluation, and deployment.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Do your NLP engineers work with domain-specific text like legal, medical, or financial documents?
Can your NLP engineers build multilingual systems?
Do your engineers have experience with both traditional NLP and LLM-based approaches?
How quickly can an NLP engineer start?
Related Services
- AI Engineers & ML Engineers — Broader AI/ML engineering for teams that need capabilities beyond NLP.
- Prompt Engineers & LLM Specialists — Specialists in LLM application development and RAG systems.
- ML Engineers — Machine learning engineers who build and train the models underneath your NLP systems.
- Data Scientists & Data Engineers — Data professionals who build the pipelines and annotation infrastructure your NLP systems depend on.
Want to Hire Remote NLP Engineers?
We source, vet, and place senior NLP engineers who’ve built and shipped production language systems — engineers who understand the full pipeline from data annotation and model fine-tuning through serving, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Whether you need one NLP specialist or a complete language engineering team, we make it fast, affordable, and low-risk.
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