Hausa NLP Data Scientist

Role Overview

AIDHealth Inc. is seeking a Hausa NLP Data Scientist to develop, evaluate, and maintain language models for analyzing Hausa-language content.

Responsibilities

• Benchmark listening platforms to assess their coverage of relevant Hausa content.
• Fine-tune African-language models, such as AfroXLMR or AfriBERTa, using project-coded Hausa data.
• Automate coding categories only when models achieve a macro-F1 score of at least 0.80 against human coding.
• Monitor model accuracy monthly and retrain models when performance declines.
• Conduct time-series analysis and comparisons across study phases.
• Maintain the secure, encrypted data warehouse and project code repository.

Requirements

• MSc or higher in Computer Science, NLP, Data Science, Statistics, or Computational Linguistics.
• At least 3 years of professional experience in applied NLP or machine learning.
• Hands-on experience fine-tuning transformer models.
• Experience with African or other low-resource languages, ideally Hausa.
• Strong Python skills, including Hugging Face, pandas, and scikit-learn, plus working knowledge of SQL.
• Native Hausa speaker with fluent English.

How to Apply 📧 Apply via: info@aid-health.org Send your application as one PDF with the subject: SL Application – [Job ID] – [Full Name]. The PDF must contain: CV (maximum 4 pages), One-page cover note, One work sample, Two referees.