Overview

AI Engineer (Contract) – Semantic Search Project

Location: Remote (must be based in UK)

Contract: ~3 months, starting September (handover available before end of month)

We’re working with a Private Equity–backed data business that has evolved a mature legacy environment into a complex data platform delivering structured intelligence, natural language query, and semantic search capabilities. The business is now in Phase 3 of a hybrid/semantic search build and needs an AI Engineer on a contract basis to step in immediately and deliver. This is a hands-on execution role, not R&D, not discovery.

What You’ll Do

• Deploy embedding models on SageMaker.
• Build pipelines with Step Functions, Lambda, S3, EventBridge.
• Generate embeddings and push them into OpenSearch.

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience productionising semantic/hybrid search pipelines.
• Deep knowledge of AWS OpenSearch, SageMaker, embeddings, vector DBs.
• Expertise with Step Functions + Lambda.
• Ability to hit the ground running and deliver against a defined design.

Why This Role?

• Immediate impact on a mission-critical AI platform.
• Focused on delivery, not experimentation.
• Work with a sharp, low-attrition engineering team.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT System Data Services