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We're looking for software engineers to help us find and publish groundbreaking, front-page investigations on the rise and threat of AI slop. You'll work on building and running the research engine that we used to find undisclosed hallucinations and AI-generated content on the web. Our work so far has produced widely covered reports examining published output from the world's top consulting firms, and academic publishing venues, earning front-page coverage in the Financial Times, Forbes, The Telegraph, Bloomberg, The Times of India, and other notable media. The ideal candidate is adept at building pipelines for processing web-scale content, skilled at creating polished reports and visuals, and has a strong instinct for recognizing newsworthy findings., * Ability to tell creative and compelling stories using data * 2+ YOE in Python for developing resilient data pipelines and long-running jobs. * 1+ YOE in SQL for data management, ideally PostgreSQL * Data analysis and visualization to analyze results and create plots that communicate findings to stakeholders. * Experience with web scraping and search at scale, including search, LLM, OCR, and data crawling tools * Experience with basic cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) * Entrepreneurial spirit in being able to bootstrap different approaches of data acquisition, speaking with stakeholders and identifying newsworthy content. * Bonus + Ability to build / vibecode webpages to display results + Applied ML for ranking and calibration. + Infrastructure-as-code and container tooling experience. + OSINT and evidence verification experience. + Ability to find data when others cannot + Experience working with media and journalists. ## Description * Use our AI detection and hallucination detection models to find compelling examples of AI slop on the internet and in publishing * Synthesize data into well-written prose, compelling visualizations and interactive user experiences (vibecoding permitted) * Build search engine query generators and targeted crawlers for document collection on the web. * Build automations to monitor social feeds and generate leads * Craft machine learning ranking and classification systems to detect documents that have fabrications using LLMs. * Create data processing pipelines that can operate robustly at scale * Help improve our models based on how they perform on new domains and investigations we pursue ## Related Videos - [Slopquatting, API Keys, Fun with Fonts, Recruiters vs AI and more - The Best of LIVE 2025 - Part 2](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1765-slopquatting-api-keys-fun-with-fonts-recruiters-vs-ai-and-more-the-best-of-live-2025-part-2) - [Optimizing Discovery: PostgreSQL's Role in Transforming GetYourGuide's Search](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1647-optimizing-discovery-postgresql-s-role-in-transforming-getyourguide-s-search) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE – Web Scraping, Agents, Actors and more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1764-wearedevelopers-live-web-scraping-agents-actors-and-more) - [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1146-fault-tolerance-and-consistency-at-scale-harnessing-the-power-of-distributed-sql-databases) - [How to scrape modern websites to feed AI agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1446-how-to-scrape-modern-websites-to-feed-ai-agents) - [The Data Phoenix: The future of the Internet and the Open Web](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1116-the-data-phoenix-the-future-of-the-internet-and-the-open-web) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [The Prompt Engineer ✍️](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/216-the-prompt-engineer) - [The Fastest-Growing Tech Sectors to Look Out for in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/373-the-fastest-growing-tech-sectors-to-look-out-for-in-2025)