Anthropic - CA | New York City, NY
posted 4 days ago
About the position
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. 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.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Improve observability of the crawler systems
- Build a set of 1-off deep crawlers to improve recall for data from especially beneficial sources
- Collaborate with team members on improving data acquisition processes
- Participate in code reviews and debugging sessions
Requirements
- Believe in the transformative potential of advanced AI systems
- Are interested in building a large scale system to acquire all openly accessible information on the internet
Nice-to-haves
- 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
