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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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