Investigations Engineer - NYC
Core
Build and run a research engine to detect AI-generated content and hallucinations on the web, synthesizing data into reports and visualizations for investigative journalism.
Role type
Senior IC software engineer (data pipelines & ML)
Builds
Web-scale content processing pipelines, search crawlers, and ML ranking/classification systems for detecting AI slop
Domain
AI safety, investigative journalism, web-scale data
Deliverable
production ML models | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Python, SQL, web scraping, data visualization, cloud infrastructure (AWS), LLMs, data pipelines
Preferred skills
OSINT, evidence verification, infrastructure-as-code, applied ML for ranking, vibecoding
Technologies
Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, LLMs, OCR, search engines
Responsibilities
Build pipelines for processing web-scale content, create search engine query generators and targeted crawlers, craft ML ranking systems to detect fabrications, synthesize data into reports and visualizations, monitor social feeds for leads, improve models based on investigation performance
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC