Engineering Manager, Data

The role

You will lead the Data team, managing 6–8 people initially with plans to grow to ~12. You will oversee data infrastructure, state-of-the-art pre-training datasets, and data-centric modeling.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of data infrastructure engineers and data-focused researchers
• Set technical direction for processing, storing, and serving multimodal data at web scale
• Drive the creation of SOTA multimodal pre-training datasets
• Establish an empirical approach to data quality
• Partner with modeling and research teams
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers and researchers

Required qualifications

• Proven management experience, including directly leading a data team of at least 6 people
• Hands-on familiarity with data infrastructure at scale
• A track record of building and leading data efforts

Nice to have

• Previous modeling experience
• Experience building data for a generative modeling organization
• Familiarity with multimodal data (audio, speech, and beyond)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Attractive equity package
• Fully covered medical insurance along with dental and vision for you and your family
• 9 weeks paternity leave
• 12 weeks maternity leave
• 401(k)
• Monthly commuter allowance stipend
• Flexible PTO
• Lunch, dinner and plenty of snacks provided daily
• Your own personal Yoshi

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is provided and assessed on a case-by-case basis
• Cartesia participates in E-Verify and will provide Form I-9 information to confirm employment eligibility after hire

About the company

Cartesia aims to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do. The founding team met as PhDs at the Stanford AI Lab where they invented State Space Models.