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NLP (natural language processing)

The field concerned with getting computers to work with human language. LLMs absorbed most of it, and the term is fading from postings.

Hiring data as of September 20, 2026 · refreshed daily

companies naming it
5 of 47companies naming it
open roles naming it
17open roles naming it
of those based in NYC
4of those based in NYC
pay: under 8 posted ranges
—pay: under 8 posted ranges

What NLP means

Natural language processing covers tasks such as classification, entity extraction, translation, summarization, and question answering. Before large language models, each was its own modeling problem with its own training data. Today one general model handles most of them through prompting, and the specialist techniques survive mainly where cost, latency, or scale rule out a large model.

NLP in New York job posts

5 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name NLP in at least one open role today, across 17 postings. 4 of those are based in New York; the rest are remote or in the companies’ other offices.

This is engineering vocabulary: 82% of the postings that name it are Engineering roles.

AlphaSense alone accounts for 11 of the 17 postings, which is why we lead with the company count: one employer’s hiring push should not read as a market trend.

How to read it

Now appears mostly as background — “experience in NLP or LLMs” — in engineering and research roles, and as a sign that a team predates the LLM shift and still runs classical models in production. Both are useful things to know about an employer.

What these roles pay

Not enough data to publish. We need at least eight distinct posted salary ranges on New York roles naming NLP before showing a median, and today there are fewer. For posted pay by function and seniority across the whole market, use the NYC salary calculator or the NYC AI engineer salary guide.

Trend

We began extracting this term from posting text on September 20, 2026. Job descriptions disappear when a role is filled, so the series cannot be backfilled; a trend line appears here once a week of data exists.

Who names it

Open roles naming NLP, by company.

Which roles

The same postings, by function and by seniority.

  • Engineering14
  • Research3
  • Mid7
  • Staff/Principal5
  • Senior5

Named alongside NLP

Terms that appear in the same postings far more often than chance would put them there. The number is how many of the 5 companies pair the two.

Open roles naming NLP

A sample from today’s data, New York roles first and one per company before any repeats. Links go to the employer’s own posting. For the full market, see AI jobs in NYC.

How this is counted

Every day we read the open roles on the public job boards of the New York AI companies in our coverage — the NYC AI 100 and the AI in NYC Show roster. This term is matched against each role’s description after removing the text a company repeats across its postings, so an “About us” paragraph cannot tag every role the company has open. A vendor’s own postings never count toward its own name.

The figure means named in a job posting. It does not mean used in production, and a “nice to have” counts the same as a requirement. Companies are the headline number because posting counts are dominated by whichever few employers are hiring hardest this month.

Full method, including the pay rules, is on the glossary index; the underlying series is the NYC AI Hiring Index.

NLP — common questions

What does NLP mean in an AI job posting?

The field concerned with getting computers to work with human language. LLMs absorbed most of it, and the term is fading from postings. Now appears mostly as background — “experience in NLP or LLMs” — in engineering and research roles, and as a sign that a team predates the LLM shift and still runs classical models in production. Both are useful things to know about an employer.

How many New York AI companies are hiring for NLP?

As of September 20, 2026, 5 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name NLP in the description of at least one open role, across 17 postings (4 based in New York). The count refreshes daily from the companies’ own job boards.

What do roles that ask for NLP pay in New York?

We do not publish a pay figure for NLP yet. Fewer than eight New York postings naming it carry a distinct posted salary range, and below that number a median says more about two or three employers than about the market.

Which skills are asked for alongside NLP?

In the same postings, the terms most distinctively paired with NLP are Inference, Machine learning, GCP, Anthropic, Evals. We rank pairings by how much more often they appear together than apart, so near-universal terms such as Python do not crowd out the informative ones.

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