Member of Technical Staff, Data Infrastructure

Inception • San Francisco, CA

12d

About The Position

We seek experienced engineers to architect and scale the core infrastructure
behind distributed training pipelines and petabyte-scale data catalogs. You'll
work directly with researchers to accelerate experiments, develop new datasets,
improve infrastructure efficiency, and enable key insights across our data
assets.

Requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of experience building data processing pipelines at scale, particularly with AI/ML applications.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with data processing frameworks (Apache Spark, Beam, Airflow).
• Familiarity with synthetic data generation techniques and data augmentation strategies.
• Familiarity with web scraping, crawling technologies, and Common Crawl datasets.
• Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals and experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases for managing structured and unstructured data.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with large language models and understanding of tokenization, embeddings, and model architectures.
• Experience managing human annotation workflows and quality control processes.
• Experience with vector databases and embedding-based retrieval systems.
• Knowledge of data privacy regulations and ethical AI practices.
• Experience with distributed computing and large-scale data storage systems (HDFS, S3, BigQuery).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure for LLM research: distributed compute, data orchestration, and storage across modalities.
• Develop high-throughput systems for data ingestion, processing, and transformation — including training data catalogs, deduplication, quality checks, and search.
• Build systems for web crawling, data ingestion, and real-time data processing to support model training operations.
• Develop tools and frameworks for efficient data storage, retrieval, and versioning across distributed systems.
• Ensure data collection adheres to privacy regulations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree