Research Engineer - Web Crawlers
Job description
Research Engineer on the research team focused on building and operating large-scale web crawling systems that source training data for frontier AI models. The role is remote and can be executed globally, with optional office locations.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
What you'll do
- Building and operating large-scale, distributed web crawlers that discover, fetch, and extract data across billions of pages reliably and efficiently
- Solving hard crawling problems such as content extraction from messy HTML, deduplication at web scale, freshness and recrawl strategies, and politeness and rate-limit handling
- Designing targeted crawling pipelines that find high-value data sources, including audio, video, and multilingual content, and turn them into clean training-ready datasets
- Creating tooling and infrastructure that lets researchers request, monitor, and explore newly crawled web data quickly and reliably
What we're looking for
- Hands-on experience building and scaling web crawlers or scraping systems, ideally in support of 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)
- The capacity to autonomously evaluate the quality, coverage, and compliance of crawled data, and to build the tooling to measure it
- No formal certifications or degrees required; showcase solving impressively hard problems with artifacts such as past projects, designs, or GitHub contributions
Your team
research team
Focused on large-scale web crawling for frontier AI models
Benefits
- Innovative culture: part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI
- Growth paths: countless opportunities to drive impact beyond immediate role and responsibilities
- Learning & development: annual discretionary stipend supporting professional development
- Social travel: annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year
- Annual team offsite: entire team gathers in a new location each year (past offsites included Croatia, Italy and Cancún)
- Co-working: monthly co-working stipend if not located near one of the 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
- Expanded from voice into three main platforms: ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative, ElevenAPI
- Team includes researchers, engineers, and operators, IOI medalists and ex-founders
Partners & customers
What they value
- High-velocity: rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy
- Impact not job titles: no 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