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Research Engineer - Web Crawlers

United Kingdom🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building and operating large-scale, distributed web crawlers to source world-class data from the open web for frontier AI models.

Role type

Senior IC research engineer (web crawling infrastructure)

Builds

Distributed crawling systems, data extraction pipelines, and tooling for monitoring web data quality

Domain

AI/ML data infrastructure, web scale distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

distributed systems at scale, web crawling/scraping, content extraction from HTML, deduplication at scale, rate-limit handling, data quality evaluation

Preferred skills

Kubernetes, queue-based architectures, multilingual content processing

Technologies

Kubernetes, custom pipelines

Responsibilities

Build and operate large-scale distributed web crawlers, solve hard crawling problems (content extraction, deduplication, freshness strategies), design targeted crawling pipelines for high-value data, create tooling for researchers to request and monitor crawled data

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