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Job Title: Web Data Engineer (OIP – Volunteer Program)
Program: Orcawise Innovation Program (OIP) – 100-Day Work Experience
Location: Remote
Type: Volunteer | Training + Project Experience

About the Role

As a Web Data Engineer in the Orcawise Innovation Program, you’ll contribute to AI model development by building high-quality, ethically sourced web scraping pipelines. You will work directly with AI and product teams to extract structured data used in compliance-focused large language models — including tools aligned with the EU AI Act.

This role requires prior technical experience with Python-based scraping tools, APIs, and data handling libraries.

What You’ll Do

• Develop, maintain, and scale web scraping scripts using Python
• Automate data collection from complex websites (JavaScript-heavy or paginated content)
• Structure and clean scraped data into JSON, CSV, or database-ready formats
• Extract data via both HTML scraping and public APIs
• Handle anti-bot measures (headers, user-agent rotation, delays, CAPTCHAs) responsibly
• Work with LLM engineers to identify useful data sources and formats
• Follow legal and ethical scraping guidelines

Required Technical Skills

You should be comfortable with the following tools and concepts before applying:

• Python (intermediate or higher)
• BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, or Selenium
• API integration and request handling using requests, httpx, or similar
• Regex and XPath for targeting data
• Working with JSON, CSV, and Pandas for data transformation
• Git (for version control and collaboration)
• Awareness of robots.txt, rate-limiting, and scraping ethics

Nice to Have

• Experience with browser automation tools (e.g. Playwright or Puppeteer via Python)
• Knowledge of proxy management and user-agent rotation
• Familiarity with Docker, Postgres, or cloud storage (S3)

What You’ll Gain

• Real-world experience building scrapers for AI model development
• Mentorship from Orcawise AI engineering team
• Portfolio-ready projects in legal-tech and AI governance
• Exposure to Responsible AI workflows and legal compliance requirements
• Certificate of completion and career support post-program

⚠️ Eligibility Requirement

Applicants may be asked to complete a short scraping task as part of the selection process to demonstrate their technical ability and understanding of ethical data sourcing.

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