Tech Lead Manager, Data Infrastructure

Cartesia is pioneering AI that learns and interacts like humans, focusing on innovative model architectures. They are seeking a Tech Lead Manager for Data Infrastructure to oversee the strategy and execution of data management, leading a team to handle multimodal datasets that drive their research.

Responsibilities:

• Define Cartesia's multi-modal data strategy across pre-training and post-training, spanning human, synthetic, and web-scale sources, with particular depth in audio
• Lead, mentor, and eventually manage a team of engineers building dataset and ML data infrastructure
• Design and operate scalable, high-throughput data pipelines for text, audio, and video — covering ingestion, preprocessing, augmentation, dataset versioning, and data loading for training
• Partner closely with research and inference teams so data systems are co-designed with training and serving infrastructure (batching, GPU-aware loading, evaluation pipelines)
• Establish and enforce rigorous standards for data quality, with a tight feedback loop between dataset characteristics and model behavior
• Identify and source novel datasets; manage relationships and budgets with external data vendors and partners