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title: "Hire Embeddings Engineers for Semantic Search | Azendo"
description: "Embeddings engineers choose chunking and models for semantic search and retrieval. Hire AI-trained engineers dedicated to your product, managed by us."
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# Embeddings specialists for your dedicated team.

An embedding represents text, images or other content as a vector of numbers, positioned so that similar items sit close together. Embeddings are what make semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation work.

## Where embeddings fits in a long-term product team.

Almost every useful language-model feature over private data depends on retrieval, and retrieval depends on embeddings. If the right document isn't retrieved, no prompt can recover it, which is why retrieval quality, more than model choice, is where most of the improvement in these systems lies.

The decisions that matter are unglamorous: how documents are split, what metadata travels with them, which model produced the vectors, and what happens when you change it. Re-embedding a corpus after a model change is a migration, and it helps to know that before you have ten million vectors.

## What your dedicated team does with embeddings.

Retrieval quality degrades as a corpus grows, and it degrades quietly: the system keeps answering, just less accurately. A plausible but wrong answer rarely gets reported, which is why this needs measuring regularly after launch.

Changing the embedding model means re-embedding everything, so the decision compounds. That kind of forward cost is what a long-term team is for, and companies [hire AI engineers](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ai-engineering-team/) for it once the feature is live.

## Common embeddings use cases.

* Search that understands meaning Finding relevant documents when the user did not use the same words the document did.
* Grounding answers in your own content Retrieval over internal documentation so generated answers cite something real.
* Fixing poor retrieval Chunking and metadata reworked on a system that answers confidently and wrongly.

## Adding embeddings skills to your team.

Retrieval work sits with the AI engineers on your team, and it is usually where an underperforming AI feature is failing. An Azendo service delivery manager oversees the delivery of that capacity.

Every embeddings specialist we assign works remotely inside your tools as a dedicated member of your team, with the management on our side. It is how companies [hire remote developers](https://azendo.co/hire-a-dedicated-development-team-in-thailand/) without opening an offshore office of their own.

## Roles that use embeddings

* [LLM Engineer AI engineering](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ai-engineering-team/llm-engineer/)
* [NLP Engineer AI engineering](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ai-engineering-team/nlp-engineer/)

## Service areas that use embeddings

* [AI engineering](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ai-engineering-team/)

Capacity is agreed across your whole team, with one monthly fee, not per skill.

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* [vLLM, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/vllm/)
* [MLflow, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/mlflow/)

## Tell us what you need embeddings for.

A service delivery manager will reply with the specialists we'd suggest, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

[Browse all skills](https://azendo.co/skills/)