# Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling)

About Cartesia Our mission is to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do. We're pioneering the model architectures that will make this possible. Our founding team met as PhDs at the Stanford AI Lab, where we invented State Space Models or SSMs, a new primitive for training efficient, large-scale foundation models. Our team combines deep expertise in model innovation and systems engineering paired with a design-minded product engineering team to build and ship cutting edge models and experiences. We're funded by leading investors at Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with Factory, Conviction, A Star, General Catalyst, SV Angel, Databricks and others. We're fortunate to have the support of many amazing advisors, and 90+ angels across many industries, including the world's foremost experts in AI. About the Role Data is the lifeblood of our models, and we are looking for a Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure to build the datasets and systems that power pretraining at Cartesia. In this role, you will write performant, scalable infrastructure to acquire, process, and curate massive datasets, and partner closely with research to opti

- **Id**: 1193441
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cartesia-research-engineer-data-infrastructure-language-modeling>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T17:16:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T18:27:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4701
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Health insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Speech & Audio AI, Foundation Models, AI Research Labs, Generative Audio & Music

## Company

- **Id**: 1846
- **Name**: Cartesia
- **Domain**: cartesia.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cartesia>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 22
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.318
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 103
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 350000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 350000

## Technologies

- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Ray** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-24T17:41:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 22; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 18; Filings 12m: 18

## Liveness

- **Score**: 80
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.885
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 103
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 350000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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