AI Data Engineer

About ZenteiQ

About the Role

What You'll Do

• Source and ingest large-scale datasets from Common Crawl, public web sources, open-source repositories and other data sources.
• Build scalable data processing pipelines for large unstructured corpora.
• Develop and optimise distributed data pipelines using tools such as Apache Spark, Ray and Dask.
• Extract and process content from web pages and documents using Trafilatura and related web/content extraction libraries.
• Design data cleaning, filtering, quality assessment and curation pipelines for LLM pretraining corpora.
• Develop heuristic-based filters to remove low-quality, boilerplate, spam, duplicated or otherwise unsuitable content.
• Implement document-level and corpus-level deduplication strategies.
• Identify and mitigate benchmark contamination and evaluation-data leakage in training corpora.
• Prepare and curate benchmark and evaluation datasets.
• Work with large-scale datasets stored and processed through GCS/GCP.
• Monitor data quality, pipeline performance, storage and processing efficiency.
• Collaborate with AI Researchers and ML Engineers to continuously improve corpus quality and training-data pipelines.

What We're Looking For

Must Have

• 2–5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, AI Data Engineering, ML Data Engineering or a related field.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience working with large-scale unstructured datasets.
• Experience building data processing / ETL pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data cleaning, filtering, validation and deduplication.
• Hands-on experience with exact and near-duplicate detection and deduplication.
• Familiarity with at least one distributed processing framework: Apache Spark, Ray or Dask.
• Understanding of web-scale data ingestion, such as Common Crawl or other large public datasets.
• Experience with HTML parsing and web/document extraction libraries such as Trafilatura, BeautifulSoup, lxml or Resiliparse.
• Familiarity with GCS/GCP and cloud-based data processing.
• Experience working with large-scale formats such as JSONL, Parquet or Arrow.
• Strong problem-solving and ownership mindset.

Good to Have

• Experience with LLMs, Foundation Models or Generative AI.
• Experience building or maintaining LLM pretraining corpora.
• Familiarity with Hugging Face Datasets, DataTrove or NVIDIA NeMo Curator.
• Experience with WARC/WET/WAT and large-scale Common Crawl processing.
• Knowledge of MinHash, fuzzy or semantic deduplication.
• Research-level understanding of synthetic data generation techniques for model training and evaluation.
• Familiarity with Rust for high-performance data processing.
• Experience with multilingual or domain-specific corpora.

Why ZenteiQ

• Build real physics-native foundation models from scratch, not another LLM wrapper — deep, defensible technical work.
• Be part of a nationally recognised mission: one of 8 startups selected under the government's IndiaAI Mission to build a sovereign foundation model.
• Work alongside IISc-trained scientists and researchers, in a company founded by an IISc professor.
• See your work land in real industry pilots across automotive, mobility, defence and industrial R&D, with measurable impact.
• Join a lean, high-calibre team at an early, high-ownership stage.