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Software Engineer, Pretraining Data

Palo Alto, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026

About the job

Builds large-scale crawling, data platform, and data-quality systems that transform raw data into training datasets for frontier coding models.

What you'll do

  • Build and operate high-throughput data pipelines, orchestration, and tooling for reliable, observable, reproducible pretraining-data iteration.
  • Train and deploy models to classify, rank, filter, and clean data, and run experiments to evaluate data quality and its effects on model performance.
  • Develop web crawling and parsing infrastructure that discovers, fetches, and processes public web content for model training.

What they ask for

  • Strong infrastructure or data platform background.
  • Ability to architect and ship end-to-end, debug complex systems independently, and work alongside AI agents.
  • Strong intuitions about large-scale distributed systems.

Nice to have

  • Exceptional depth in a domain such as crawling or search infrastructure.

AI focus

Builds data systems and trains models that prepare and evaluate data for frontier model pretraining; the role also involves working alongside AI agents.

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