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Semantic Backend Engineer (Contract, Remote)

Semantic Backend Engineer (Contract, Remote)

InfuseWorkFromHome, Western Cape, South Africa
4 days ago
Job type
  • Remote
Job description

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Overview

INKHUB is ingesting 10 million raw PDFs to build the Internet's richest catalog of marketing-grade B2B content — tagged, summarized, and searchable by topic, company, or intent.

What You’ll Do

  • Own the ETL pipeline from raw PDFs (S3-ingested) to structured resources.
  • Finalize our summarization and classification flow using open-source models with GPT-4o fallback.
  • Apply filtering logic (e.g., 3‑year age, page count) to enforce resource quality.
  • Map each asset to the specific topic taxonomy (10+ per topic across ~9 topics).
  • Generate dense embeddings using sentence‑transformers.
  • Load and query embeddings using Milvus or pgvector.
  • Implement “freshness” logic to identify and index only new or updated content based on file diffing, crawl timestamp, or document hash.
  • Build a QA / eval harness : format compliance, , drift monitoring.
  • Expose / v1 / semantic‑search via FastAPI, with filtering and rank fusion.
  • Collaborate closely with our Tech Lead on UX integration and snippet generation.

Your Toolbox

Python, PyTorch, sentence‑transformers, OpenAI APIs, or similar pretrained LLMs. FastAPI, Milvus or pgvector, PyPDF / Tika, Airflow or Lambda for orchestration. Docker, GPU scheduling, Athena / Redshift SQL.

You Might Be a Fit If

  • You’ve built ML pipelines that touched real users, not just notebooks.
  • You’ve worked on semantic search, embeddings, or large‑scale tagging.
  • You’ve wrestled with unstructured data and love turning chaos into clarity.
  • You like working fast, iterating with feedback, and tracking metrics that matter.
  • Why This Role Matters

    Your models decide what gets found, how it's tagged, and which content and companies stand out. You’ll help define what “relevance” and “freshness” mean for over a million resources and 50+ company pages and make sure INKHUB stays ahead of the curve.

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