Search & AI Retrieval Lead

As Search & AI Retrieval Lead, you’ll define how structured data, semantic understanding, and intelligent systems come together to power discovery across our platform.

Requirements

• 5+ years building and scaling production search or retrieval systems.
• Strong experience designing search architectures, not just operating them.
• Experience evaluating and selecting search technologies.
• Experience with semantic search and embeddings-based retrieval.
• Experience building pipelines on top of frontier LLMs (OpenAI, Gemini).
• Strong Python skills.
• Experience leading technical initiatives in mid-sized teams.
• Experience working with cloud-native systems (preferably GCP).

Benefits

• Tenure Gifts - Vouchers, extra holiday and sabbaticals for each year of employment.
• Health insurance through Vitality
• Employee Assistance Programme - Access to a health and wellbeing service that offers personalised advice and support from specialist teams.
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity pay.
• Annual Leave - 25 days + bank holidays which includes a week's closure over the Christmas period to fully reset.
• MyMindPal app - Online support for mental fitness that helps people to stress less and enjoy life more
• Corporate Events - From quarterly gatherings to our annual winter & Summer parties, we love to celebrate, collaborate and have fun together!