Avanti Recruitment
Mid-Level NLP Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £45,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements:- 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 or Generative AI exposure
- Useful but not essential: AWS experience
- Useful but not essential: Elasticsearch or OpenSearch experience
- Useful but not essential: OCR experience
- Useful but not essential: C# or .NET experience
- Useful but not essential: LegalTech, FinTech, RegTech, or other document-heavy environment experience
- Develop and maintain Python-based NLP and document-processing services
- Extract and process information from Word documents, PDFs, and unstructured text
- Work with NLP techniques such as information extraction, classification, pattern matching, and entity extraction
- Investigate and resolve issues in a live production environment
- Debug, test, and release fixes
- Contribute to new document-intelligence functionality
- Work with modern LLM technology alongside more traditional NLP approaches
- AI
- AWS
- OpenSearch
- C#
- ElasticSearch
- LLM
- Python
- ASP.NET
- Cloud
More:
We are a growing SaaS technology company building and supporting production NLP and document-processing technology. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on improving how our live software platform extracts and processes information from complex documents. You will work closely with a Senior NLP Specialist, initially supporting our existing production environment and gradually taking ownership of larger features and new functionality. This is not a research or proof-of-concept role; we are looking for someone who enjoys applying NLP to real software used by real customers. The role is fully remote across the UK, with a salary of up to £70,000.
last updated 35 week of 2026
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Avanti Recruitment
Manchester
IT
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£57,500
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£60,000
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This salary is 4% below the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
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