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CohereCohereNew York, NY

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Web Data

Build and operate large-scale web data pipelines for pretraining language models, including extraction, filtering, quality scoring, deduplication, and corpus analysis. The role requires strong Python and data-engineering skills, experience with large web datasets, and collaboration across research and engineering teams.

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Remote5+ YOEData Engineering

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Maintain large-scale pipelines for processing web corpora.
  • Build filtering and quality-scoring systems to identify high-value web documents.
  • Analyze web data composition across domains, languages, and time periods.
  • Develop and maintain highly performant deduplication pipelines.
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers to ensure data pipelines meet the demands of language models.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering skills.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience building data pipelines.
  • Familiarity with data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Pandas, or similar tools.
  • Experience working with large-scale web datasets.
  • Knowledge of data quality assessment techniques and experimentation with data mixtures.
  • Passion for bridging research and engineering to solve complex data-related challenges in AI model training.

Nice-to-haves

  • A paper at a top-tier venue such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, or EMNLP.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency.
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate mental-health budget.
  • RRSP matching, 401(k), or pension scheme.
  • 100% parental-leave top-up for up to 6 months for either parent.
  • Annual enrichment benefits for arts and culture, fitness and wellness, quality time, and workspace improvements.
  • Education and learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
  • Six weeks of paid vacation (30 working days).
  • Budget for travel to other offices if remote, plus an annual company offsite.
  • Coworking benefit for employees not near an office.
  • $500 home-office stipend.

Skills

PythonData PipelinesSparkApache BeampandasWeb DataData DeduplicationData FilteringData Quality AssessmentNatural Language ProcessingAi Model Training