# Research Engineer - Data Infrastructure

**Company:** [ElevenLabs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/elevenlabs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Skills:** Data Pipelines, Distributed Data Processing, Machine Learning, Kubernetes, Data Curation, Deduplication, Quality Scoring, Data Labeling, Data Augmentation, Web Crawlers
**Posted:** 2026-08-28

> Build the data infrastructure, processing pipelines, curation strategies, and tooling that power frontier AI model training. The role requires strong distributed-data engineering experience and the ability to measure how data quality affects model outcomes.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build large-scale data pipelines for collecting, processing, filtering, and transforming datasets used to train state-of-the-art models.
- Train models for data-processing pipelines, including classifiers, quality filters, and labeling models.
- Design data-curation strategies such as deduplication, quality scoring, labeling, and augmentation to improve model performance.
- Create tooling and infrastructure that enables researchers to explore and train on massive datasets quickly and reliably.

## Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to solve difficult engineering problems through past projects, designs, or GitHub contributions.
- Experience building data-intensive systems, ideally supporting machine-learning training pipelines.
- Strong engineering skills in distributed data processing at scale, including Kubernetes or custom pipelines over large datasets.
- Ability to independently evaluate how data quality, composition, and curation affect model outcomes and build tooling to measure those effects.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience building or operating web crawlers.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual professional-development stipend.
- Annual stipend for social travel with colleagues.
- Annual company offsite.
- Monthly co-working stipend for employees outside main hubs.

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