Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling)
Cartesia · *HQ - San Francisco, CA
CHECKED 6H AGO
Applied AIonsite$200k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build scalable pipelines to acquire and curate massive pretraining datasets.
- Run ablation experiments to shape data mixtures and model quality.
- Partner with research to link dataset characteristics to model behavior.
What they offer
- Competitive base salary and equity package
- Fully covered medical, dental and vision insurance for you and family
- 9 weeks paternity and 12 weeks maternity leave
- 401(k)
- Monthly commuter allowance
- Flexible PTO
- Daily lunch, dinner and snacks
Ideal candidate
A systems-minded ML engineer who loves clean, fast data infrastructure and obsesses over data quality. You thrive partnering with researchers and seeing your datasets directly shape frontier models.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with ML data infrastructure including training data pipelines, dataset versioning, and large-scale data loading
- Strong engineering execution with clean, well-tested code and fluency with modern tools
- Familiarity with building and evaluating datasets for generative models and working knowledge of model training and inference
- remote policy
- In-person team based in office
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship support available, assessed on a case-by-case basis
Lab profile
About Cartesia
Architects efficient State Space Model foundation models for human-like real-time AI interaction.
Known for
- State Space Models (SSMs)
- Efficient large-scale foundation models
- Model innovation and systems engineering