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