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Data Acquisition Lead, Frontier Environments

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · New York, NY · San Francisco, CA

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Infrastructureonsitelead$182k–$228k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own end-to-end deals securing data that powers RL environments.
  • Map supply side and build thesis on which AI domains to own next.
  • Turn hands-on dealmaking into a repeatable acquisition pipeline.

What they offer

  • Equity compensation
  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Generous PTO
  • Commuter stipend

Ideal candidate

Entrepreneurial dealmaker with 5+ years building zero-to-one commercial motions who thrives in ambiguity, loves bridging business and research, and cares about shaping frontier AI.

Requirements

  • 5+ years across some mix of business development, corp dev, commercial strategy, or early-stage GTM
  • Strong track record of managing important external relationships
  • Strong business judgment and ability to evaluate partnership value quickly
  • Clear communication skills and comfort working with senior stakeholders
  • Ability to operate independently while staying closely connected to cross-functional teams
  • Practical, hands-on approach to building new functions from the ground up
  • Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
  • Experience in AI, data infrastructure, marketplaces, platforms, or high-growth technology companies
  • Familiarity with post-training, RL, evals, or synthetic data
  • Experience with data licensing, IP, or regulated data
  • Experience partnering closely with Legal and Finance on complex agreements

Lab profile

About Scale AI

AI data foundry providing high-quality data for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating AI systems.

What they build

  • Training, fine-tuning, and evaluation data for frontier models
  • Multimodal and coding data for audio, image, video and world models
  • Custom AI applications for enterprise and global public sector

Known for

  • Leading data partner for frontier model developers
  • Trusted across enterprise, defense and public sector
  • Depth in multimodal, coding and physical AI
  • End-to-end capability from strategy to delivery and evaluation

Key facts

  • Founded in 2016
  • Headquartered in San Francisco, California
  • Private company backed by Accel, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Nvidia and Meta
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