Data Strategy Lead for Frontier AI Systems

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary & equity

Health Insurance

Parental Leave

401(k)

Commuter Allowance

Flexible PTO

Meals & Snacks

Your own personal Yoshi

Job summary

Cartesia is seeking a Data & Strategy Lead to shape one of the most important inputs to frontier AI models. You will own data quality, evals, and data pipelines, working across research, product, and go-to-market teams to drive impact.

You bring 3–10 years of high-ownership experience, strong data/ops fluency, and the ability to operate in ambiguity while delivering high standards and clear results.

Qualifications

• 3–10 years of experience in high-ownership roles (e.g., founder, GM, or strategy/ops at a startup).
• Technical fluency with data and operations; SQL proficiency required.
• Holds themselves and others to a high bar, bias to action, and strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid pace; collaborative and mission-driven.

Responsibilities

• Identify model failure points through evals and customer conversations.
• Design, source, and maintain evals defining model quality with data requirements.
• Establish data collection pipelines and own data quality from acquisition to delivery.
• Stay close to research and collaborate on datasets to inform data collection.
• Be commercially minded, engage with customers, and support GTM efforts.

Skills

Data strategy

SQL proficiency

High ownership

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

Python

Job description

Cartesia is seeking a Data & Strategy Lead to shape one of the most important inputs to frontier AI models. You will own data quality, evals, and data pipelines, working across research, product, and go-to-market teams to drive impact.

You bring 3–10 years of high-ownership experience, strong data/ops fluency, and the ability to operate in ambiguity while delivering high standards and clear results.