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Member of Technical Staff - Pre-Training Data

San Francisco, CAFull-time2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10
Visa sponsorship offered

Core

Design and implement techniques for sourcing, curating, and filtering large-scale web, text, and code data for open AI models.

Role type

Pre-training data researcher

Builds

Open foundational models

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, deep learning frameworks (PyTorch/JAX), distributed computing, data curation, data quality metrics, experimental design, ablation studies, data ethics

Preferred skills

Probability and statistics, large-scale text/code dataset analysis, data engineering, data safety and licensing frameworks, open source contributions, PhD in CS/ML/Physics/Mathematics

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, JAX

Responsibilities

Design and run data experiments, develop data quality metrics, mitigate data risks (privacy/safety/licensing), evaluate dataset changes via ablations, publish research and share code/datasets

Seniority

Mid-level IC (Bachelor's required, PhD preferred)