NLP / AI ENGINEER - Location: Douala, Cameroon

Are you a talented NLP or AI Engineer with strong technical skills and the ability to innovate, multitask, and work in an agile environment? Then, join our team for Product Development and Projects Implementations in Cameroon.

Vennote Technologies is building a next-generation Natural Language Understanding, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence products with a focus on Multimodal and Cross-Channel User Interfaces (phone, web, mobile, etc.)

This is a Contract Hybrid position.

The position requires individuals who enjoy challenges, prioritize, meet deadlines, and have a collaborative work ethic and teamwork spirit working closely with our Speech Scientists, Software Developers, Analysts, and Project Managers.

We have:

·       A state-of-the-art, highly innovative Product platform that we continuously expand/improve to maintain our leadership

·       A team of seasoned experts to collaborate with.

·       An open mind to new technologies, methodologies, challenges, and innovation

We are looking for you if you are:

·         Be a veteran AI engineer who is fluent in French and genuinely comfortable working with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and agentic AI.

·         Leverage a wide range of techniques from linguistic rules to transformers and deep neural networks in your day-to-day work.

·         Gather and clean relevant datasets for training a chatbot.

·         Create predefined templates to structure responses based on identified intents and entities.

·         Use statistical models to generate more natural and diverse responses.

·         Experience extracting meaningful features from text data, such as n-grams, part-of-speech tags, and named entities.

·         Build models to identify the user's intent or purpose behind their query.

·         Research, experiment with and implement innovative approaches to named entity recognition, relationship extraction, entity linking and classification

·         Work with customer provided data to both evaluate and continuously iterate on NLP solutions

·         Produce performant and production quality robust code following the best practices adopted by the product team

·         Improve (in performance, accuracy etc.) existing solution to NLP problems

·         Have an agile product mentality balancing between finding solutions that deliver high precision/recall, over simpler approaches that can give value to customers in shorter intervals.

·         Demonstrate passion, excitement, and real interest in what we do while being respectful of others and fun to work with

·         Proven experience with Python and Deep Learning Frameworks (PyTorch preferably, Keras optionally)

·         Get involved in all stages of the ML lifecycle

·         Bring conversational design expertise grounded in Cameroonian culture, with fluency in at least one local language — someone who can define what makes a conversation genuinely good for the average Cameroonian subscriber, not just technically correct.

·         OCR experience is a bonus.

Optional:

·         Experience with chat or voice bots

·         Knowledge of low code frameworks

·         Experience with Application Containerization methods and Application Containerization Engines (e.g. Docker)

·         Experience with web frameworks for building APIs with Python (e.g. FastAPI, Flask, Sanic)