NLP Engineer — Fresher / Trainee (IBM, Visakhapatnam 2026)

About the role

Entry-level NLP Engineer opportunities for freshers in Visakhapatnam (IBM and peers) — eligibility, in-demand skills (Python, NLP, transformers, Hugging Face), prep and how to apply.

<p><strong>Visakhapatnam, 2026</strong> — IBM is a global tech firm building watsonx enterprise AI. This alert covers fresher / entry-level <strong>NLP Engineer</strong> opportunities in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh for 2024–2026 graduates. In this role you would build natural-language systems — classification, extraction, search and LLM pipelines. Always confirm the current opening and apply on the official careers page below.</p>

<h2>About the role</h2> <p>As an entry-level NLP Engineer at a company like IBM, you would build natural-language systems — classification, extraction, search and LLM pipelines, working alongside senior engineers and data scientists. AI, Generative AI and Agentic AI are among the fastest-growing hiring tracks in India in 2026, and Visakhapatnam is an active market across GCCs, product companies and services firms.</p>

<h2>Eligibility</h2> <ul> <li>B.Tech / B.E / MCA / M.Sc (CSE, IT, ECE, Data Science or related) — 2024, 2025 or 2026 batch.</li> <li>Solid Python and fundamentals of machine learning / AI.</li> <li>A portfolio project is the single biggest differentiator for freshers.</li> </ul>

<h2>Skills that get shortlisted</h2> <p>Python, NLP, transformers, Hugging Face, LLMs, spaCy, tokenization, embeddings.</p>

<h2>How to prepare &amp; apply</h2> <p>Build an NLP pipeline (e.g. document extraction) end-to-end. Our <a href="/courses/ai-genai-agentic-ai-training-hyderabad/">AI, GenAI &amp; Agentic AI training in Hyderabad</a> is built around exactly these portfolio projects, the <a href="/programs/fde-forward-deployed-engineer-course/">FDE PRO Forward Deployed Engineer course</a> goes deeper on production AI, and the <a href="/blog/ai-ml-engineer-career-path-2026-roadmap-hyderabad-zero-to-25-lpa/">AI/ML Engineer career roadmap</a> covers the full path. Apply on the official careers page: <a href="https://www.ibm.com/careers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">IBM Careers</a>. See more roles on the <a href="/jobs/">Cloudsoft jobs board</a>.</p>

<p><em>This is an informational hiring alert, not a confirmed single-company job posting. Eligibility, the live opening and compensation must be verified on the employer’s official careers page before applying. Salary shown is an indicative market range for freshers and is not guaranteed.</em></p>