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Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling)

Cartesia · *HQ - San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About Cartesia

Integrate real-time text-to-speech with Sonic-3.6, Cartesia. Backed by General Catalyst, Index and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

Data is the lifeblood of our models, and we are looking for a Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure to build the datasets and systems that power pretraining at Cartesia. In this role, you will write performant, scalable infrastructure to acquire, process, and curate massive datasets, and partner closely with research to optimize the characteristics and composition of data mixtures. Your work will directly shape the capabilities and quality of our foundational models.

What they're looking for

  • Hands-on experience with ML data infrastructure: training data pipelines, dataset versioning, large-scale data loading, and the interplay between data systems and model training and inference
  • Strong modern engineering execution: clean, well-tested code, fluency with current tools, and a willingness to pick the right tool for the problem rather than defaulting to familiar patterns
  • Familiarity with building and evaluating datasets for generative models and reasonable working knowledge of how they're trained and inference
More about this role

Our mission is to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do.

We're pioneering the model architectures that will make this possible. Our founding team met as PhDs at the Stanford AI Lab, where we invented State Space Models or SSMs, a new primitive for training efficient, large-scale foundation models. Our team combines deep expertise in model innovation and systems engineering paired with a design-minded product engineering team to build and ship cutting edge models and experiences.

We're funded by leading investors at Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with Factory, Conviction, A Star, General Catalyst, SV Angel, Databricks and others. We're fortunate to have the support of many amazing advisors, and 90+ angels across many industries, including the world's foremost experts in AI.

Data is the lifeblood of our models, and we are looking for a Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure to build the datasets and systems that power pretraining at Cartesia. In this role, you will write performant, scalable infrastructure to acquire, process, and curate massive datasets, and partner closely with research to optimize the characteristics and...

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