CareerPlan

Principal Research Scientist, Synthetic Data Generation

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$272k–$431k2026-09-04 → 2026-11-13

Core

Define technical direction and build open-source libraries for synthetic data generation (text, code, structured, multimodal) to feed pre- and post-training of frontier LLMs like Nemotron.

Role type

Principal Research Scientist (Synthetic Data Generation)

Builds

Open-source libraries, SDKs, and scalable data generation pipelines for LLM training.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models / Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLMs, generative modeling, multimodal machine learning, data pipeline optimization, software library development, reinforcement learning, differential privacy, distributed inference, Git/CI-CD.

Preferred skills

Open-source community contributions, agentic/tool-use data generation, RL environment design, regulated industry data synthesis.

Responsibilities

Build and scale data generation pipelines using LLM-based methods; pioneer data generation for agentic and tool-use training; advance multimodal synthetic data generation; develop privacy-preserving synthesis techniques; develop and maintain open-source libraries and SDKs; publish original research at top conferences; mentor scientists and engineers.

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship