Remote Research Engineer — Large-Scale Web Crawlers

Jobicy; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ElevenLabs is seeking a Research Engineer to join the research team, focusing on large-scale web crawling for our frontier AI models. You will own crawling systems that source data from the open web, ensuring quality and scale for model training.

You will build distributed crawlers, tackle content extraction from messy HTML, deduplication at web scale, and design pipelines for high-value multilingual data. Remote-friendly role with global collaboration and opportunities to influence data

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and scaling web crawlers or scraping systems, ideally for machine learning training data.
• Strong engineering skills in distributed systems at scale (e.g., Kubernetes, queue-based architectures, or custom pipelines processing billions of documents).
• Ability to autonomously evaluate the quality, coverage, and compliance of crawled data, and to build tooling to measure it.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate large-scale, distributed web crawlers that locate and fetch data from billions of pages.
• Solve crawling challenges like content extraction from messy HTML, deduplication at web scale, freshness/recrawl strategies, and polite rate-limiting.
• Design targeted crawling pipelines to source high-value data (audio, video, multilingual) for clean training datasets.
• Create tooling to monitor, request, and explore newly crawled web data for researchers.

Skills

Large-scale web crawlers

Distributed systems

Data quality & measurement

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

ElevenLabs is seeking a Research Engineer to join the research team, focusing on large-scale web crawling for our frontier AI models. You will own crawling systems that source data from the open web, ensuring quality and scale for model training.

You will build distributed crawlers, tackle content extraction from messy HTML, deduplication at web scale, and design pipelines for high-value multilingual data. Remote-friendly role with global collaboration and opportunities to influence data