Senior Scientist, Synthetic Data Generation

Nvidia

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Remote
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$168,000–$264,500 / yr
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36 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior Scientist, Synthetic Data Generation

As a Senior Scientist, Synthetic Data Generation, you will join the team to advance capabilities in synthetic data generation for training frontier models like Nemotron. You will build synthetic data generation pipelines using LLM-based methods and automated quality evaluation to improve reasoning, coding, structured output, and multimodal understanding. Your daily work involves designing and maintaining open-source libraries and SDKs with clean APIs while collaborating with research, engineering, product, and model teams. You will develop datasets across text, code, structured, and multimodal formats including image, document, video, and audio. The role requires expertise in generative modeling, inference frameworks like vLLM or TGI, and experience with Git/CI-CD. You will also publish original research at top machine learning conferences and mentor junior researchers while solving complex problems related to pre- and post-training of large language models.

What you'll do

  • Build synthetic data generation pipelines using LLM-based methods and automated quality evaluation.
  • Develop datasets to improve reasoning, coding, structured output, and multimodal understanding for frontier models.
  • Advance multimodal synthetic data generation across image, document, video, and audio formats.
  • Design and maintain open-source libraries and SDKs with clean APIs and documentation.
  • Drive software excellence using modern tooling, configuration-based architecture, and professional CI/CD pipelines.
  • Publish original research at top machine learning and AI conferences to maintain technical leadership.
  • Mentor interns and junior researchers to foster technical growth within the team.

What we're looking for

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 3 years of research experience in synthetic data generation, generative modeling, or multimodal machine learning.
  • Deep technical understanding of LLMs, training methodologies, and inference frameworks like vLLM or TGI.
  • Proven track record of developing or maintaining software libraries for a broad developer community.
  • Strong publication record at premier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or ACL.
  • Experience building and optimizing scalable data pipelines for large-scale model training.
  • Experience with multimodal generation or understanding including vision-language, document AI, video, or audio.
  • Experience generating data for agentic, tool-use, or reinforcement-learning post-training.

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