Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Data Acquisition

Highlights

• Lead ingestion layer turning open web and licensed sources into training corpora.
• Own web crawl, extraction pipelines and versioned data lakes at PB scale.
• Shape model strengths and safety through what you crawl, extract and keep.

What they offer

• Salary and equity with stock options for all contributors
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance plus wellness allowance
• Lunch and dinner provided in the office daily
• 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents including adoptive journeys
• Unlimited PTO in the US and 30 days in the UK plus off-sites and celebrations

Ideal candidate

Hands-on engineering leader who loves building web-scale data systems and growing strong teams. You stay close to the stack, sweat ingestion details, and care how data choices shape open frontier models.

Requirements

• Experience building, mentoring and growing data or infrastructure engineering teams while staying technically hands-on
• Deep experience building web-scale data acquisition or ingestion systems at multi-TB to PB scale
• Strong coding ability with credibility to earn technical trust of a strong team
• Deep expertise in web crawling, large-scale extraction pipelines, or data lakes and corpus delivery
• Fluency with Ray, Beam, Spark, Airflow, Prefect, Parquet, JSONL, WARC and object stores
• Ability to drive concurrent data campaigns with research, vendors and legal within licensing constraints