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Member of Technical Staff - Data Ingestion Engineer

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-19 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build and operate large-scale data ingestion systems to acquire, extract, normalize, and deliver web and large-scale data sources into reliable corpora for training frontier AI models.

Role type

Senior IC data ingestion engineer (distributed systems)

Builds

Large-scale data ingestion pipelines, specialized crawlers, and dataset delivery systems for pre-training

Domain

AI/ML pre-training, large-scale data acquisition, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Web crawling, data ingestion, large-scale data acquisition, distributed systems design, experiment design, data analysis, system observability, code review, debugging

Preferred skills

LLM training intuition, tradeoff analysis, rapid iteration based on measurable impact

Technologies

Ray, Beam, Spark

Responsibilities

Build and operate ingestion systems for web crawling and extraction; Run experiments to evaluate crawling strategies and ingestion tradeoffs; Analyze ingested data to identify gaps and redundancy; Develop specialized crawlers for high-priority data sources; Review code and debug production issues

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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