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Data Engineer

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build ingestion and search systems for AI products processing global patent literature, case law, and scientific databases.

Role type

Senior IC data engineer (large-scale data infrastructure)

Builds

High-throughput ingestion pipelines, document processing systems, and scalable search/indexing services for tens to hundreds of millions of records.

Domain

Intellectual Property (IP) industry + Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, SQL, production database design, large-scale data pipeline operations, search system architecture, schema design, indexing, query optimization, performance profiling

Preferred skills

PostgreSQL, pgvector, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Spark, Delta Lake, AWS, NoSQL, Rust, C++

Responsibilities

Build and operate high-throughput, resumable pipelines for large datasets; extract content from complex documents and handle malformed records; design schemas and indexes for fast keyword and vector search; link information across diverse sources; profile and tune infrastructure for throughput, latency, and cost.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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