About this role
Hausa NLP Data Scientist
Hausa NLP Data Scientist
- Job Type Remote
- Qualification MBA/MSc/MA
- Experience 3 years
- Location Nigeria
- Job Field Data, Business Analysis and AI
Responsibilities
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Benchmark candidate listening platforms on how much relevant Hausa content they capture.
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Fine-tune African-language models (AfroXLMR or AfriBERTa class) on project-coded Hausa data.
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Automate a coding category only once the model reaches a macro-F1 score of 0.80 or higher against human coding.
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Monitor model accuracy monthly and retrain models when performance drifts.
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Run time-series analysis and comparisons across the study phases.
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Maintain the secure, encrypted data warehouse and the project code repository.
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Required experience
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MSc or higher in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Data Science, Statistics or Computational Linguistics.
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At least 3 years of professional experience in applied NLP or machine learning.
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Hands-on experience fine-tuning transformer models.
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Experience with African or other low-resource languages, ideally Hausa.
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Strong Python skills (Hugging Face, pandas, scikit-learn) and working knowledge of SQL.
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Native Hausa speaker with fluent English.
Preferred experience:
- Publications or open-source work on Hausa NLP (for example AfriSenti or NaijaSenti).
- Topic modelling (BERTopic) and time-series analysis in R or Python.
Skills and attributes:
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Rigour in measuring and reporting model accuracy honestly.
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Able to explain technical limits to non-technical colleagues.
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