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!
