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Senior Frontier Data Strategist

Scale AI· Gen AI Operations
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York, NY)$192.8k - $241kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Frontier Data Strategist on Scale's Generative AI team responsible for shaping data strategy and human-data programs for frontier labs, owning pre-training data design, scoping, forecasting, and program delivery, and aligning customer needs with Scale product roadmap.

Responsibilities

  • Own relationships with senior research stakeholders at frontier labs and become a strategic thought partner on post-training, evaluation, and agent roadmaps.
  • Set the data strategy for accounts, anticipating needs across research areas and building multi-program plans.
  • Direct cross-functional teams designing Scale's most complex and novel human-data programs.
  • Shape Scale's product roadmap by representing customers and resolving tradeoffs between needs and capabilities.
  • Bring frontier insights back to Scale to guide strategy and investment decisions.
  • Own the pipeline of new opportunities for accounts; lead scoping, forecasting, pricing, and handoff to signed programs.
  • Mentor Frontier Data Strategists and help develop playbooks and standards for program design and engagement.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in a technical AI/ML role (e.g., ML engineering, research, applied science, technical product management, or post-training data work)
  • Fluency in the LLM training lifecycle, especially post-training (SFT, preference data, reward modeling, RL environments, evaluations, agentic training)
  • Track record of owning relationships with senior technical stakeholders and influencing direction
  • Experience shipping ambiguous, high-stakes technical programs from idea to delivery
  • Experience influencing a product or research roadmap without direct authority
  • Ability to read a research paper and determine data needs to improve capabilities and defend opinions to researchers
  • Degree in CS, engineering, math, physics, or another quantitative field

Skills

Required:Relationship management with senior technical stakeholdersData strategy for AI programsCross-functional program leadershipPricing and scoping for new opportunities

Benefits

  • comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • learning and development stipend
  • generous PTO
  • potential commuter stipend
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Scale accelerates the development of AI within organizations of any size to deliver critical business insights and operational efficiency. Its data-centric infrastructure platform leverages RLHF (Reinforced Learning with Human Feedback) to help organizations build the strongest AI models that supercharge their business, with customers across industries including Meta, Microsoft, U.S. Army, DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit, Open AI, General Motors, Toyota Research Institute, Brex, Instacart and Flexport.

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