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Principal Research Scientist, Synthetic Data Generation

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $272,000–$272,000🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-25

Core

Define technical direction and build open-source libraries for synthetic data generation to feed pre- and post-training of large language models (LLMs) like Nemotron.

Role type

Principal Research Scientist (Synthetic Data Generation)

Builds

Open-source libraries, SDKs, and scalable data generation pipelines for text, code, structured, and multimodal data.

Domain

Generative AI, Large Language Models, Multimodal Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Generative modeling, LLM training pipelines, automated quality evaluation, differential privacy, open-source library development, distributed inference optimization, research publication

Preferred skills

Agentic AI and tool-use training, reinforcement learning environment design, multimodal generation (vision-language, video, audio), regulated industry data synthesis

Technologies

LLMs, vLLM, TGI, Git, CI/CD

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; maintain open-source libraries with clean APIs; drive software excellence with modern tooling; publish original research at top conferences; mentor scientists and engineers.

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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