AI Developer
Lagos - Lagos State
1840 & Company – EMEA /
Full-Time /
Remote
AI Developer - Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled AI Developer with 5+ years of experience to design, development, and deployment of AI/NLP systems across our different products. You will work on solving advanced challenges in talent profile intelligence & enrichment, semantic search & relevance ranking, automated role-based technical & behavioral assessments, spoken language proficiency evaluation, backlink automation, and generative AI-powered workflows.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design & implement AI/NLP models for:
- Backlink opportunity discovery (topic/content matching, site relevance, anchor text suggestions)
- Resume and CV parsing (entity extraction, skill matching)
- Semantic search, embedding-based matching across both content and candidate use cases.
- Automated role-based assessments: coding, MCQ, and behavioral. Human behavior & sentiment communication analysis for technical interviews.
- Spoken language proficiency evaluation & communication analysis.
- Develop Python-based data pipelines to preprocess, train, validate, and serve models.
- Integrate models with search & indexing systems (like OpenSearch / Elasticsearch) for fast retrieval, ranking, and filtering.
- Build & maintain REST APIs / microservices to expose functionality: resume extraction, link opportunity search, candidate matching etc.
- Work with backend frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, Django) to support scalable AI deployments.
- Manage and optimize databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or other NoSQL/graph DBs).
- Optimize large-scale queries, indexing, and similarity search.
- Optimize large-scale queries, indexing, similarity search and performance across both platforms.
- Collaborate with product / engineering teams to ensure AI solutions align with business goals, user workflows, and quality metrics.
- Research and apply modern NLP and AI techniques such as Transformers, embeddings, topic modeling, LLMs, and unsupervised/semi-supervised learning.
Required Qualifications:
- Proficiency in Python and ML / NLP libraries: pandas, scikit-learn, spaCy, HuggingFace / transformers.
- Experience with OpenSearch / Elasticsearch (or similar) for search, ranking, indexing.
- Experience in content analysis / web content scraping / topic matching / SEO metrics (site relevance, domain authority etc).
- Experience with resume/CV parsing or information extraction.
- Solid understanding of embeddings, semantic similarity, named entity recognition, topic modeling.
- Experience building REST APIs / microservices.
- Containerization and deployment experience (Docker etc).
- Strong analytical, performance-oriented, problem solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with LLMs (GPT, BERT etc.), and ability to adapt them for domain-specific tasks.
- Strong backend development skills in FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
- Experience with databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB (NoSQL), or graph DBs.
- Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) for scalable training/inference.
- Prior experience in link building , content matching.
- Experience in recruitment tech, HR analytics, candidate matching or job-market platforms.
- Experience in unsupervised learning / topic modeling / large scale content pipelines.
$5 - $7 an hour
About 1840 & Company
1840 & Company is a global leader in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and remote talent solutions, dedicated to propelling businesses forward through our comprehensive suite of services. We specialize in connecting companies with world-class freelance professionals and delivering top-tier outsourcing services, across over 150 countries worldwide.
Our mission is to empower growth for forward-thinking businesses, seamlessly bridging any skill or resource gaps with our expertly vetted talent pool. We firmly believe in fostering an environment where exceptional individuals can achieve an optimal work-life balance, working remotely from any location, while maximizing their professional growth and earning potential.
We are headquartered in Overland Park, KS, USA with service delivery facilities in the Philippines, India, Ukraine, South Africa and Argentina. We invite you to explore the opportunities we offer and consider joining our exclusive network of global freelance talent. Visit www.1840andco.com to learn more about us. To explore a wealth of career opportunities and find a role that suits your unique skills and aspirations, please visit our dedicated jobs portal at jobs.1840andco.com. #LI-NS1
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
