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Engineering Manager, Data

Cartesia· Research
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*HQ - San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Lead the Data team responsible for data infrastructure, state-of-the-art pre-training datasets, and data-centric modeling to ensure high-quality, scalable multimodal data for training. Manage and grow a team from 6–8 toward ~12, set technical direction for web-scale data processing and storage, and collaborate with modeling and research teams to translate data work into better models.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a high-caliber team of data infrastructure engineers and data-focused researchers, splitting focus between shared infra and dedicated modeling teams.
  • 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.

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.

Skills

Required:Data infrastructure managementTeam leadership

Benefits

  • Compensation: Competitive base salary alongside attractive equity package.
  • Health Insurance: Fully covered medical insurance along with dental and vision for you and your family.
  • Parental Leave: 9 weeks paternity & 12 weeks maternity leave
  • 401(k)
  • Commuter Allowance: A monthly stipend to help you get to and from the office.
  • Flexible PTO
  • Meals & Snacks: Lunch, dinner and plenty of snacks, provided daily.
  • Your own personal Yoshi
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Cartesia

Real-time TTS API with AI laughter and emotion

Cartesia offers Sonic-3, a streaming text-to-speech API capable of generating natural, expressive voices with laughter in 40+ languages—built for AI agents and interactive applications.

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