20 hours ago
Remote, United States +4 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end data extraction workflows across complex websites and deliver accurate, structured datasets.
- Use custom workflows and tools to accelerate data collection, validation, and task execution.
- Extract data from dynamic and interactive websites, including JavaScript-rendered content and changing site structures.
- Perform data-quality checks, cross-source consistency validation, formatting verification, and final delivery checks.
- Scale scraping operations through batching or parallelization while monitoring failures and maintaining stability.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in data engineering, web scraping, automation, or software development.
- Strong Python web scraping experience with tools such as BeautifulSoup and Selenium, including dynamic content and APIs via proxies.
- Ability to extract data from complex hierarchies, archived pages, and inconsistent HTML.
- Experience with data cleaning, normalization, validation, and structured outputs such as CSV and JSON.
- Experience handling anti-bot mechanisms and dynamic site structures at scale.
- Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure and Docker containerization.
- Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks such as LangChain or OpenRouter for automation tasks.
- Upper-intermediate English proficiency at B2 level or above.
- A GitHub link and a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant technical field are preferred.
Benefits
- Remote freelance engagement with an estimated workload of 10–20 hours per week during active project phases.
- Part-time project-based work with compensation of up to $45 per hour equivalent, depending on level and contribution pace.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Mindrift
Mindrift builds an expert-sourcing platform that connects domain specialists to project-based work training and evaluating generative AI models, including supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, evaluation, and red-teaming. It is built and operated by Toloka, part of Nebius Group, and run from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Work is fully remote and freelance, serving global technology companies developing and improving large AI systems.