Cartesia

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Cartesia
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Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define Cartesia’s multimodal data strategy for pre-training and post-training across human, synthetic, and web-scale sources, with particular depth in audio.
  • Design and operate high-throughput pipelines for text, audio, and video ingestion, preprocessing, augmentation, dataset versioning, and training data loading.
  • Partner with research and inference teams to co-design data systems with training and serving infrastructure, including batching, GPU-aware loading, and evaluation pipelines.
  • Establish data-quality standards and connect dataset characteristics with model behavior through iterative feedback loops.
  • Identify and source novel datasets while managing relationships and budgets with external data vendors and partners.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building ML data infrastructure, including training-data pipelines, dataset versioning, large-scale data loading, and data-system integration with model training and inference.
  • Working knowledge of multimodal data, especially audio formats, preprocessing, augmentation, storage, and streaming patterns at scale.
  • Strong modern software-engineering execution, including clean, well-tested code and the ability to select appropriate tools for the problem.
  • Experience leading cross-functional technical efforts in a fast-moving, research-driven environment.
  • Familiarity with building and evaluating datasets for generative models and a reasonable working knowledge of model training and inference.

Benefits

  • In-person work from offices in San Francisco, London, or Bangalore.
  • Visa sponsorship support is assessed case by case and is not guaranteed.
  • Competitive base salary and attractive equity package; compensation figures are not specified.
  • Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and families in the US.
  • Nine weeks of paternity leave and twelve weeks of maternity leave for US employees.
  • 401(k), monthly commuter allowance, and flexible PTO.
  • Daily lunch, dinner, and snacks provided.
  • Inclusive culture with resources and support for employee success.

Categories

Data Engineering
Cartesia

About Cartesia

51-200 employees

Our mission is to architect AI that learns and interacts like humans. Try Sonic and Ink at https://play.cartesia.ai

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