Hausa NLP Data Scientist

Role Overview

Hausa NLP Data Scientist at AIDHealth Inc. is responsible for benchmarking listening platforms, fine-tuning African-language models, automating coding categories, monitoring model accuracy, running time-series analysis, and maintaining secure data warehouses and code repositories.

Responsibilities

• Benchmark candidate listening platforms on how much relevant Hausa content they capture.
• Fine-tune African-language models (AfroXLMR or AfriBERTa class) on project-coded Hausa data.
• Automate a coding category only once the model reaches a macro-F1 score of 0.80 or higher against human coding.
• Monitor model accuracy monthly and retrain models when performance drifts.
• Run time-series analysis and comparisons across the study phases.
• Maintain the secure, encrypted data warehouse and the project code repository.

Requirements

• MSc or higher in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, 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 (Hugging Face, pandas, scikit-learn) and working knowledge of SQL.
• Native Hausa speaker with fluent English.

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications in one PDF to: info@aid-health.org using “SL Application – [Job ID] – [Full Name]” as the subject of the mail. Candidates should send one PDF containing: A CV (maximum 4 pages); A one-page cover note; One work sample; Two referees.