NVIDIA
Principal Engineer - Data Retrieval
$272K–$431K
US, MA, Remote +3 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- US, MA, Remote
US, NY, Remote
US, CO, Remote
US, WA, Remote - Experience
- 15+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Architect and scale a data acquisition platform that discovers, crawls, and ingests high-quality data for foundation-model training.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture and implementation of source discovery, crawl, scheduling, fetching, and ingestion systems.
- Build reliable, scalable pipelines for open-web, licensed, and partner data, with provenance and policy controls.
- Own production readiness and coordinate teams to deliver reproducible data releases for training experiments.
What they ask for
- Deep experience with web crawling or related discovery, indexing, or ingestion infrastructure.
- Strong hands-on system design, implementation, performance analysis, and production debugging skills.
- Experience building batch or streaming pipelines and delivering data platforms for research, ML, search, or other demanding users.
- Strong technical communication and cross-team leadership.
Nice to have
- Experience supplying foundation-model pretraining data, including code or technical content.
- Experience with publisher consent, licensing controls, provenance infrastructure, or licensed and multimodal datasets.
Pay
272,000 USD - 431,250 USD (base salary)
AI focus
Build data acquisition infrastructure that supplies foundation models, starting with code and STEM data for Nemotron.
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