- Company: Get A Job.ai
- Location: London
- Salary: Pay not listed
Website Get A Job.ai
Represented by Get A Job.ai
About This Opportunity
We are representing a confidential AI technology client experiencing exceptional growth in the intellectual property sector. Our talent team is searching for a Data Engineer to architect and operate the ingestion and search infrastructure that powers their platform.
This role offers end-to-end ownership of data systems processing global patent literature, case law, technical standards, scientific databases, and web content across structured records, documents, images, audio, and video formats.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate high-throughput, resumable pipelines for large-scale dataset ingestion with efficient incremental updates, monitoring, and failure recovery
- Extract structured content from complex documents and varied formats while handling malformed records, evolving schemas, and validating outputs
- Build and maintain keyword, vector, and structured search systems with optimized schemas, indexes, and partitioning for queries across tens to hundreds of millions of records
- Connect information across disparate sources, linking patents, scientific records, and supporting documents while preserving dates, versions, and traceability
- Profile and optimize parsing, ingestion, database builds, and queries against representative datasets at production scale
- Diagnose CPU, memory, and storage I/O bottlenecks, tuning jobs and infrastructure for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency
- Collaborate closely with AI researchers and product engineers with substantial autonomy in technical approach
What We're Looking For
Essential Requirements:
- Strong Python and SQL expertise with demonstrated experience designing and operating production databases
- Proven track record building and operating production data pipelines over large, complex datasets
- Deep expertise running search systems over large document collections
- End-to-end ownership mindset from raw data acquisition through user-facing functionality
- Solid understanding of schema design, indexing strategies, and query optimization
- Demonstrated ability diagnosing and resolving performance bottlenecks in live systems through profiling and measurement
Nice to Have:
- Experience with PostgreSQL/pgvector, OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, Spark/Delta Lake, AWS infrastructure
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases or systems programming languages like Rust or C++
How We Work With You
Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our recruiting team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and technical experience. Strong matches are then submitted to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the employer directly—all communication flows through our talent team to ensure a professional, organized process.
Pay
Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience level and qualifications.
Location: London
Visa Sponsorship: Available
Get A Job.ai is an equal opportunity recruiter. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and work to ensure fair, inclusive hiring processes for the organizations we represent.
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London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.1 million people in 2024. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 15.4 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London
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Nearby green space: 12 parks within 1.5km — closest is Whitehall Garden (364m). via OpenStreetMap
Nearest public transit: Charing Cross (station, 41m). via OpenStreetMap
- Elevation 18m (59 ft)
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About this role & career path
Traits that fit this role
- Innovation
- Achievement Orientation
- Intellectual Curiosity
- Cautiousness
- Attention to Detail
Source: O*NET Work Styles (Distinctiveness Rank).
Typical preparation needed: Job Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. — via O*NET
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Salary & compensation
Workers in Computer & Mathematical occupations earn a national median of $98,769 — via US Census ACS / Data USA
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Listing facts
- Role Data Engineer
- Employer Get A Job.ai
- Location London
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted September 17, 2026
- Apply by October 17, 2026
- Overview Full job description on this page (411 words)
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- Design databases to support business applications, ensuring system scalability, security, performance, and reliability.
- Develop data models for applications, metadata tables, views or related database structures.
- Design database applications, such as interfaces, data transfer mechanisms, global temporary tables, data partitions, and function-based indexes to enable efficient access of the generic database structure.
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