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Member of Technical Staff - AI Data Platform, Frontier Models

United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building large-scale AI data infrastructure and intelligent data pipelines to support pre-training and post-training of frontier multimodal models.

Role type

Senior IC AI Data Platform Engineer (Frontier Models)

Builds

EB-scale data platforms, intelligent multimodal data processing systems, and AI-native data pipelines for model training.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal AI, Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, SQL, Shell, Distributed Data Platforms (Spark, Flink, Ray), Multimodal Data handling, LLM/VLM pre/post-training data construction, Synthetic data generation, Evaluation benchmarks (MMLU, MMBench), Open file/table formats (Lance, Iceberg, Paimon, Parquet), LLMs/Vision models understanding, ETL systems, Data modeling, Data pipelines

Preferred skills

Large-scale text/image/video dataset processing, Agents and modern LLM toolchains, Data governance, Hybrid search, Rare high-value dataset discovery

Technologies

Spark, Flink, Ray, Lance, Iceberg, Paimon, Parquet, Python, SQL, Shell, LLMs, VLMs

Responsibilities

Develop and evolve large-scale AI data infrastructure for frontier AI labs; Build automated understanding and processing systems for text, images, and video; Design and train models for data classification, recognition, and quality scoring; Leverage LLMs and Agents to build intelligent data pipelines for automation; Design open, AI-optimized storage layers supporting multimodal data and embeddings; Develop differentiated datasets for challenging domains using real-world collection and synthetic generation; Drive the Data-Model-Evaluation iteration loop to optimize model capabilities.

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