Senior AI / Data Engineer – ScholarAssist (Contract, Remote)

Position Title
Senior AI / Data Engineer (Semantic Search & LLM Systems)
Engagement Type
Contract-Based Role
Fully Remote (Global Candidates Welcome)
Project Overview
We are building ScholarAssist, a next-generation AI-powered academic integrity and citation engine. The platform verifies factual claims in research documents against a multi-terabyte global academic index and private user repositories, ensuring citation accuracy and eliminating hallucinated references.
The system combines:
Billion-scale semantic search
Advanced LLM-based reasoning
High-performance distributed processing
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced engineer to design and implement core components of a large-scale AI verification system.
This is a hands-on, execution-focused role requiring deep expertise in:
Distributed data systems
Vector search architectures
LLM-based pipelines
You will be responsible for building systems that operate at scale, spee...