Data/ML/AI
NLP
Also written as Natural Language Processing
The field of AI focused on understanding and generating human language — powers chatbots, translation, and search.
Think of it like
Like teaching a computer to actually read and write in human language, instead of just matching keywords.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Has only called an LLM API and calls it NLP work.
Senior sounds like
Can say whether their experience predates LLMs — custom models, embeddings — or is mostly API-based, and why that distinction matters.
Ask them
“Was your NLP work building custom models, or mostly working with an existing LLM API?”