Engineering Manager, Data
$250,000–$375,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead a team of 6–8 data infrastructure engineers and researchers, managing web-scale processing and storage pipelines that keep petabytes of multimodal data flowing reliably. Set technical direction for multimodal annotation models that identify who said what, when, and how, while curating data mixes that shape model behavior. Train and evaluate models to establish an empirical approach to data quality, feeding insights back into dataset decisions. Partner closely with modeling teams to ensure data work translates directly into better models, growing the organization from a handful of people to a full team.
Required Qualifications
- Proven management experience, including directly leading a data team of at least 6 people
- Hands-on familiarity with data infrastructure at scale — processing, storage, and the systems that make large-scale data usable
- A track record of building and leading data efforts, ideally in the context of a modeling project
- Built and led a data team
- Shipped data at the scale modern models demand
- Knows the difference between infrastructure that works in a demo and infrastructure that works at web scale
- Lead and grow a high-caliber team of data infrastructure engineers and data-focused researchers
- Set the technical direction for how Cartesia processes, stores, and serves multimodal data at web scale
- Drive the creation of SOTA multimodal pre-training datasets — including the annotation models and curation strategies that determine what our models learn
- Establish a rigorous, empirical approach to data quality: training and evaluating models specifically to understand what makes data valuable, and feeding that back into dataset decisions
- Partner closely with our modeling and research teams to make sure data work translates directly into better models
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineers and researchers as the team scales from a handful of people to a full organization
- Must be available for weekend shifts
- Valid driver's license
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs
- Must be able to effectively lead and coach others
- Strong attention to detail
- Helping customers gives you energy
- Get charged up by interacting with others
- Must be available for weekend shifts
- You believe that food is central to our lives
- Passionate about excellence
- If you have a smile to share, we'd love to have you
- We want amazing humans
Desired Qualifications
- Previous modeling experience
- Experience building data for a generative modeling organization
- Familiarity with multimodal data (audio, speech, and beyond)
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