NVIDIA
Principal Research Scientist, Synthetic Data Generation
$272K–$431K
US, CA, Santa Clara +4 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, CO, Remote
US, CA, Remote
US, NY, New York
US, MA, Remote - Experience
- 15+ years in engineering and research in synthetic data generation, generative modeling, multimodal machine learning, or related areas.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Sets technical direction and builds open-source tools and scalable pipelines for generating and evaluating synthetic data used to train frontier language and multimodal models.
What you'll do
- Build synthetic data pipelines for model pre-training, post-training, reasoning, coding, structured outputs, and multimodal tasks.
- Develop agentic, tool-use, reinforcement-learning, privacy-preserving, and safe data-generation methods.
- Maintain open-source libraries and SDKs; publish research and mentor scientists and engineers.
What they ask for
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Deep understanding of LLM training stages and inference frameworks such as vLLM or TGI.
- Track record developing or maintaining software libraries used by a broad developer community.
- Experience building scalable data pipelines for large-scale model training; strong publication record at premier venues.
Nice to have
- Significant open-source contributions with community adoption.
- Experience in multimodal generation, agentic or reinforcement-learning data, differential privacy, or regulated-industry synthetic data.
Pay
272,000 USD - 431,250 USD (base salary)
Tools
NVIDIA NeMo, Nemotron, vLLM, TGI, Git, CI-CD
AI focus
Research and engineering for synthetic data generation for LLM and multimodal model training, including agentic and tool-use training, reinforcement learning, automated quality evaluation, privacy-preserving synthesis, and safety.
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