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Anthropic Limited

Software Engineer, Data Acquisition

Anthropic Limited, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199


About the role:We are looking for a Software Engineer to lead the “Tokens: Data Acquisition” team, which owns the problem of acquiring all of the available data on the internet through a large scale web crawler, and through data partnerships. Most of Anthropic’s research and product builds on top of the best pretrained models that we can produce, which in turn rely on having the best pretraining data. Successfully scaling our data corpus is critical to our continued efforts at producing the best pretrained models.

The team’s responsibilities are as follows:

Develop and maintain an internet scale web crawler responsible for crawling for accessible internet data

Build required pipelines to quickly ingest data from potential partners for data quality assessments or from other sources

Build a set of 1-off deep crawlers to improve recall for data from especially beneficial sources

Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain our large-scale web crawler

Build pipelines for data ingestion, analysis, and quality improvement

Build specialized crawlers for high-value data sources

Build tools for improving the observability and debuggability of crawler system

Collaborate with team members on improving data acquisition processes

Participate in code reviews and debugging sessions

You may be a good fit if you:

Believe that advanced AI systems could have a transformative effect on the world, and are interested in helping make sure that transformation goes well

Are interested in building a large scale system to acquire all openly accessible information on the internet

Strong candidates may also:

Extensive experience with building and running large distributed systems

Familiarity with the non-technical tradeoffs of internet-scale crawling (data privacy, robots.txt adherence, etc.)

Technical expertise: Quickly understanding systems design tradeoffs, keeping track of rapidly evolving software systems

Familiarity with Cloud-based compute and storage solutions

Familiarity with Python

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