AI Engineer - Search & Retrieval

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong experience building and scaling production-grade search or retrieval systems
• Proven ability to design search architectures from scratch
• Experience working with semantic search, embeddings, and vector-based retrieval
• Hands-on experience building pipelines using LLMs (OpenAI, Gemini)
• Strong Python skills
• Experience working in cloud-native environments (ideally GCP)
• Background leading or owning technical initiatives within a team

Responsibilities

• Define and design a scalable, cloud-native search architecture from the ground up
• Evaluate and select the right technologies across keyword, vector, hybrid, and graph-based search
• Design indexing, ranking, and data modelling strategies
• Establish clear frameworks for measuring search relevance and performance
• Design and implement a knowledge graph to model entities and relationships
• Define schema, linking strategies, and enrichment workflows
• Combine graph-based signals with semantic search and ranking models
• Build extraction and enrichment pipelines using modern LLMs
• Architect scalable retrieval and data pipelines in a GCP environment
• Work with analytical platforms such as BigQuery (or similar)

Technologies

• Architect
• BigQuery
• Cloud
• GCP
• Python
• DevOps
• Support

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We are an interesting, fast-growing business that sits at the intersection of data, knowledge, and decision making. Our company supports consulting and private equity firms by helping them access and surface high-quality insights from external experts and their own internal knowledge. This is a full-time permanent remote position based in the UK.

last updated 17 week of 2026