Senior Data Curriculum Architect for ML Models

walden-robotics; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash bonus

Company equity

Insurance programs

401(k) with match

Flexible PTO

Daily lunch

Job summary

Walden Robotics is seeking a senior IC to own the data curriculum across pre-training and post-training. You will bridge the data platform and research teams, shaping what data models learn and in what order to maximize quality.

You will build tooling, run rigorous data-centric experiments, and mentor cross-team collaboration to drive stronger model performance and reliability across our workloads.

Qualifications

• Experience improving models via data-driven methods, not architecture alone.
• Rigorous experimental design and attribution of model changes to data.
• Able to lead cross-cutting work streams and influence multiple teams.
• Strong engineering skills to build supporting tooling for experiments.
• Clear communication of results and implications.

Responsibilities

• Own the data curriculum—sourcing, mixing, sequencing, and weighting data across pre- and post-training.
• Run experiments to quantify how curriculum choices affect model quality.
• Build tooling to make curriculum changes fast, measurable, and reproducible.
• Develop an evidence-based understanding of data usefulness and impact.
• Partner with research and data teams and mentor data-centric methodologies.

Skills

Data-Centric ML

Experimental Rigor

Influence

Engineering

Communication

Job description

Walden Robotics is seeking a senior IC to own the data curriculum across pre-training and post-training. You will bridge the data platform and research teams, shaping what data models learn and in what order to maximize quality.

You will build tooling, run rigorous data-centric experiments, and mentor cross-team collaboration to drive stronger model performance and reliability across our workloads.