Data Lead

Cartesia • San Francisco, CA

100d

About The Position

Data is the lifeblood of our models, and we are looking for a Data Lead to own the strategy and execution for all data at Cartesia. This is a critical leadership role, where you will be responsible for building and managing the datasets that power our cutting-edge research. You will lead a talented team of data engineers and specialists to acquire, process, and curate massive multimodal datasets. Your vision will directly shape the capabilities and quality of our foundational models.

Requirements

• Technical expertise in large-scale data engineering.
• Familiarity with building datasets for and evaluating generative models.
• Leadership skills to grow and guide a high-impact data team.

Responsibilities

• Define Cartesia’s overall multi-modal data strategy across pre-training and post-training, including human, synthetic, and web-scale data sources.
• Lead, manage, and mentor a team.
• Design and oversee the construction of robust, scalable data pipelines for text, audio, and video.
• Establish and enforce rigorous standards for data quality across the organization.
• Deeply understand how data affects model capability and proactively identify and source novel datasets.
• Manage relationships and budgets with external data vendors and partners.

Benefits

• Lunch, dinner and snacks at the office.
• Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.
• 401(k).
• Relocation and immigration support.
• Your own personal Yoshi.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees