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Research Crawling Engineer

London, KY · On-site

$150 - $200/hr

Build a distributed crawler for a continuously updated, high‑quality web project * Design a ... Strong programming experience in one or more of: Go, Rust, Python, Java, or C++ * Experience ...

Saviance

Senior Backend AI Engineer

... resilient web crawling and automation pipelines for provider credentialing data collection • ... • Writing Crawler experience (such as: Scrapy, Apache Nutch, Heritrix) • Familiarity with ...

Horizon3.ai

Senior Software Engineer, Browser Automation

$125K - $165K/yr

... crawler using Playwright and Stagehand . * Tackle the gnarly realities of modern web apps: SPA ... Collaborate with the attack-team engineers who consume your crawl output, and help shape the graph ...

Far Coder

$150 - $200/hr

... crawler behavior.* Deploy and operate services on AWS using Docker , with first-class ... the web -- and the systems that turn readers into long-term members.### **What Does This Team Do?

MLabs

Network Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)

Ashburn, VA · On-site

$125K - $150K/yr

Network Infrastructure Engineer - AI Data Platform Location: Hybrid - Ashburn Compensation: $125K ... The client operates a vast distributed crawler, granting unique access to high-quality public web ...

MLabs

Network Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)

Ashburn, VA · Hybrid

$125K - $150K/yr

Network Infrastructure Engineer - AI Data Platform Location: Hybrid - Ashburn Compensation: $125K ... The client operates a vast distributed crawler, granting unique access to high-quality public web ...

MLabs

Network Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)

Ashburn, VA · On-site

$125K - $150K/yr

Network Infrastructure Engineer - AI Data Platform Location: Hybrid - Ashburn Compensation: $125K ... The client operates a vast distributed crawler, granting unique access to high-quality public web ...

Rubick

Data Crawling - Consultant

Oregon, WI · On-site

$100 - $125/hr

This role focuses on developing scalable web crawling solutions that power Product Discovery ... Monitor crawler performance, identify failures, and resolve data extraction issues. * Collaborate ...

Horizon3 AI, Inc.

$150 - $200/hr

IO traffic, infinite scroll, and crawler traps. Extend our agentic login and authentication ... You have an offensive security mindset: you don't just navigate a web app; you actively map its ...

Jackalope Digital LLC

$150 - $200/hr

Building new features on top of our Tracker Radar crawler to detect emerging privacy threats ... Implementing new privacy features and maintaining existing ones, such as our Web Tracking and Email ...

OneStream

Senior Organic Growth & AEO Manager

$114K - $148K/yr

... engineer will scale. This is more than an SEO role. It's the chance to define how buyers discover ... Own AI crawler accessibility across the site, ensuring AI engine crawlers (e.g., GPTBot, Claude-Web ...

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Research Crawling Engineer

London, KY • On-site

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$150 - $200/hr

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Posted 7 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Design and operate large-scale web data acquisition systems for research and model development.

  • Monitor crawl performance, coverage, and data quality; iterate quickly to improve systems.

  • Handle anti-bot systems, rate limits, and dynamic/JS-heavy sites to ensure effective data collection.

Job description

London, United States | Posted on 30/04/2026

They also operate a massive distributed crawler, giving them unique access to high‑quality public web data at global scale.

About the role

They are hiring a Research Crawling Engineer (Full remote - USA/EU, 6 hour overlap with EST). You will join a company at the forefront of developing a web‑scale crawler and knowledge graph that improves access to public web data and extends the value of AI to the people.

As a Research Crawling Engineer, you will design and operate large‑scale web data acquisition systems for research and model development. Your work will span distributed systems, scraping infrastructure, and data pipelines.

Key Responsibilities
  • Operate at the boundary of scale and reliability
  • Adapt to constantly changing web environments
  • Balance throughput, coverage, and data quality
  • Own end‑to‑end data acquisition pipelines
MISSIONS
  • Design high‑throughput, fault‑tolerant systems for data collection (millions to billions of URLs/day)
  • Handle anti‑bot systems, rate limits, and dynamic/JS‑heavy sites
  • Develop pipelines for cleaning, deduplication, filtering, and normalisation
  • Construct and maintain datasets for research and model training
  • Monitor crawl performance, coverage, and data quality; iterate quickly
  • Collaborate with research teams to align data collection with modeling needs
  • Optimize infrastructure for cost, latency, and reliability
Example Projects
  • Build a distributed crawler for a continuously updated, high‑quality web project
  • Design a system to classify and filter billions of pages for pretraining
  • Extract structured data from dynamic, JS‑heavy sites at scale
  • Improve deduplication and quality scoring across multimodal datasets
Requirements
  • Strong programming experience in one or more of: Go, Rust, Python, Java, or C++
  • Experience working for reputable companies
  • Experience building and maintaining large‑scale web crawlers or data pipelines
  • Experience designing high‑throughput, fault‑tolerant systems for data collection (millions to billions of URLs/day)
  • Experience handling anti‑bot systems, rate limits, and dynamic/JS‑heavy sites
  • Experience constructing and maintaining datasets for research and model training
  • Familiarity with distributed systems and parallel processing
  • Experience working with large datasets (TB–PB scale preferred)
  • Ability to debug unstable or adversarial environments
Preferred / Bonus
  • Experience with NLP pipelines or dataset curation for ML
  • Familiarity with LLM pretraining data or retrieval systems
  • Knowledge of proxy systems, IP rotation, and large‑scale request orchestration
  • Background in data quality evaluation or benchmarking
  • Experience running workloads on cloud or bare‑metal infrastructure
Main Evaluation Criteria
  • Ability to design systems that scale without degrading quality
  • Practical problem‑solving under real‑world constraints
  • Speed of iteration and ownership
  • Measurable improvements in data coverage, quality, or efficiency
  • Contract: Permanent role (Full remote – USA or 6 hour overlap with EST)
  • Salary: $150k to $225k based on experience and demonstrated ability to operate at scale + equity package/tokens
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