Senior ML Data Processing Developer
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Montréal-based nonprofit AI research organization developing safe-by-design, non-agentic AI through its Scientist AI approach.
Recently funded
Montréal, Québec, Canada
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About LawZero
LawZero conducts AI safety research and develops technical solutions for highly capable safe-by-design AI. Its Scientist AI research seeks transparent, evidence-based prediction without goal-directed behavior, with potential applications in scientific discovery and oversight of agentic AI systems.
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About the Role
You will build, automate, and scale data pipelines that transform web-scale raw data into training datasets. You will develop filtering, scoring, privacy, provenance, and leakage-detection capabilities; monitor data quality; acquire suitable text corpora; and create tools for researchers to explore datasets.
Requirements
- Degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in data processing, machine learning engineering, or natural language processing
- Experience handling massive unstructured text datasets
- Experience with Spark, Ray, or Flink
- Experience with PII scrubbing, content-safety filtering, and evaluation-contamination prevention
- Python proficiency and production-grade data-processing code experience
- Experience with Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster
Responsibilities
- Build, automate, scale, and manage data pipelines for training datasets
- Develop deduplication, quality scoring, filtering, toxicity removal, PII scrubbing, metadata extraction, and data transformations
- Maintain dataset versioning and provenance tracking
- Ensure ingested data meets compliance, governance, and legal requirements
- Develop scoring and filtering toolchains, including evaluators, classifiers, and review workflows
- Monitor data quality, guardrails, and alerts for regressions
- Analyze corpus coverage and support targeted data acquisition and licensing
- Design leakage detection mechanisms to prevent evaluation contamination
- Build tools for researchers to explore and query datasets
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits, including a mental health and wellness management account
- 20 days of vacation per year upon start
- Employer contribution of 4% to retirement savings with no employee match required
- Additional compensation equal to 8% of salary for retirement savings or bonuses
