Research Engineer - Data Infrastructure
Job description
Research Engineer on ElevenLabs' research team, focused on the data infrastructure behind frontier AI models. The role owns systems for collecting, processing, filtering and transforming training data at scale.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
What you'll do
- Building large-scale data pipelines for collecting, processing, filtering, and transforming datasets used to train state-of-the-art models
- Training models used in data processing pipelines, such as classifiers, quality filters, and labeling models
- Designing data curation strategies such as deduplication, quality scoring, labeling, and augmentation that measurably improve model performance
- Creating tooling and infrastructure that lets researchers explore and train on massive datasets quickly and reliably
What we're looking for
- Experience building data-intensive systems, ideally in support of machine learning training pipelines
- Strong engineering skills in distributed data processing at scale (e.g., Kubernetes, or custom pipelines over large datasets)
- The capacity to autonomously evaluate how data quality, composition, and curation affect model outcomes, and to build the tooling to measure it
- Showcase solving impressively hard problems with artifacts such as past projects, designs, or GitHub contributions
Nice to have
- Experience building or operating web crawlers
Your team
research team
Focused on the data infrastructure that powers frontier AI models
Benefits
Annual company offsite: the entire team gathers in a new location each year - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy
- Innovative culture: part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI
- Growth paths: countless opportunities to drive impact beyond your immediate role and responsibilities
- Learning & development: annual discretionary stipend supporting professional development
- Social travel: annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year
- Co-working: monthly co-working stipend if you're not located near one of our main hubs
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About ElevenLabs
AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology
ElevenLabs launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. It serves millions of users and thousands of businesses, from fast-growing startups to large enterprises. Its platforms are ElevenAgents (voice and chat agents at scale), ElevenCreative (speech, music, image, and video generation and editing across 70+ languages), and ElevenAPI (access to leading AI audio foundational models).
Key facts
- 2023
- AI research and product
- Launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model
- Serves millions of users and thousands of businesses
- Raised $781M in funding
- Last valuation was $22B
- Operates three main platforms: ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative, and ElevenAPI
- Team includes researchers, engineers, and operators; IOI medalists and ex-founders
- Offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Warsaw
Partners & customers
What they value
- High-velocity: rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy
- Impact not job titles: it's about the impact you have; no task is above or beneath you
- AI first: use AI to move faster with higher-quality results across the whole company
- Excellence everywhere: everything we do should match the quality of our AI models
- Global team: we prioritize your talent, not your location