About the job
mlabs is hiring a Web Scraping Specialist to support large-scale data extraction for AI model training. This full-time position is fully remote, but requires at least six hours of workday overlap with the Eastern Standard Time (EST) zone. The team manages distributed crawlers and complex pipelines that process billions of data points, including video, transcripts, and audio.
Compensation
Annual salary ranges from $75,000 to $150,000, depending on experience.
What You Will Do
- Develop and optimize code: Build, test, and refine high-performance scraping solutions for a wide range of online sources. Focus on reliability and efficiency.
- Oversee data retrieval: Manage complex extraction tasks, including handling pagination and dynamic content such as AJAX-loaded pages.
- Ensure data quality: Clean and format collected data to meet strict standards for downstream analysis and processing.
- Database management: Organize and store scraped data in appropriate databases, with attention to speed and long-term integrity.
- Monitor and maintain systems: Continuously track scraping operations and infrastructure to quickly identify and resolve issues, maintaining steady data flow.
Work Environment
This role suits someone who enjoys technical challenges and prefers working without heavy bureaucracy. Expect a hands-on, collaborative setting focused on delivering results.

