Senior Manager, Training Data

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation seeks a senior product leader to define the strategy for training data acquisition and preparation for foundation models. You will own the product vision, partner with engineering, research, and legal, and drive platform investments focused on data quality, diversity, and scale.

You will work across research, data acquisition, data platforms, and compliance to shape roadmaps and measure success through model performance and training outcomes.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in product management or related technical role, including 5+ years on data platforms, search/indexing, or ML infrastructure.
• 4+ years direct people management experience.
• Track record delivering data systems at scale with improved quality, reliability, or cost.
• Strong understanding of distributed data pipelines, storage, indexing or retrieval, and data processing.
• Experience partnering with research or ML teams to turn needs into datasets or platform capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills with SQL, Python, or equivalent, and ability to decide with incomplete information.
• Clear written and verbal communication with diverse stakeholders and ability to influence decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own product vision, strategy, and roadmap for data acquisition and preparation.
• Define requirements for discovery, indexing, quality/diversity ranking, crawling, and ingestion.
• Lead improvements in parsing, curation, HTML extraction, and dataset composition.
• Guide build/buy/partner decisions and establish pilots to measure data yield and cost.
• Collaborate with researchers to measure data impact through experiments and ablations.
• Coordinate with legal, privacy, policy, and security on scalable controls and provenance.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical skills

Communication

Decision making under uncertainty

Stakeholder influence

Experiment design

SQL/Python data analysis

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or related field

Tools

SQL

Python

ML tooling

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a senior product leader to define the strategy and build the platforms that deliver high-quality training data for our foundation models. Starting with web and code data for Nemotron, you will help research teams discover valuable new sources from the open web, improve data quality and diversity, and turn raw content into datasets that advance model capabilities. In this founding product leadership role, you will partner with an engineering lead and work across research, data acquisition, data platforms, and legal teams to build the roadmap and investment priorities. You will connect data acquisition and curation decisions to measurable training outcomes, balancing quality, scale, delivery time, and cost. As research needs evolve, you will extend the platform to additional domains and modalities!

This role offers the opportunity to shape a foundational capability for NVIDIA's AI models, working directly with researchers and engineers to improve what our models can learn. If you bring deep technical curiosity, product judgment, and a record of delivering ambitious data platforms, we want to hear from you.

What you'll be doing:

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for training data acquisition and preparation. Translate research priorities and model capability gaps into source requirements, platform investments, and dataset acceptance criteria aligned with training schedules.
• Define requirements for source discovery, URL indexing, predictive quality and diversity ranking, crawl scheduling, distributed fetching, and ingestion. Partner with engineering on throughput, reliability, storage, and capacity planning as workloads scale.
• Drive improvements in parsing and curation, including HTML extraction, browser-rendered content, code and math preservation, duplication, quality filtering, and dataset composition. Identify where valuable content is lost and increase the yield of usable, differentiated data.
• Lead build, buy, and partner decisions across internal crawling, commercial datasets, and licensed content. Establish comparable internal and vendor pilots that measure incremental coverage, accepted data yield, delivery reliability, and total cost against existing corpora.
• Partner with researchers on controlled training experiments and ablations to measure data impact on model capabilities. Account for benchmark contamination, dataset composition, and regressions, and use results to guide source selection and acquisition investment.
• Work with legal, privacy, policy, and security teams to translate approved requirements into scalable controls for source eligibility, access restrictions, opt-outs, provenance, and permitted use. Define auditable dataset acceptance and release processes.
• Build researcher-facing capabilities for dataset discovery, metadata, versioning, lineage, and quality reporting. Enable reproducible dataset releases and reuse, measure adoption, and reduce the time from a research request to training-ready data.
• Align teams on priorities, dependencies, and ownership. Shape hiring and resource plans with engineering leadership, communicate investment tradeoffs to senior leaders, and establish shared metrics for model impact, data coverage, pipeline latency, cost, and delivery against training cutoffs.

What we need to see:

• A BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ overall years in product management or a related technical role, including 5+ years on data platforms, search/indexing, or ML infrastructure.
• 4+ years direct people management experience
• A track record of delivering data systems at scale and improving quality, reliability, processing time, adoption, or cost. Experience building a new platform or taking a technically complex product from concept to production.
• Strong technical understanding of distributed data pipelines, storage, indexing or retrieval, and data processing. Ability to engage in architecture and capacity discussions and make informed product tradeoffs with engineers.
• Experience working closely with research or ML teams to turn evolving needs into datasets or platform capabilities. Good judgment in experiment design, baseline selection, and distinguishing data quality proxies from proven model improvement.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to inspect data and performance metrics using SQL, Python, or equivalent tools. Comfort making decisions with incomplete information and refining priorities as evidence develops.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with proven ability to influence engineering, research, legal, and commercial stakeholders and secure decisions on scope, resources, and investment.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Direct experience with foundation-model training data, large-scale web crawling, source discovery, HTML parsing, or corpus curation.
• Experience evaluating data suppliers, integrating publisher content, defining licensing requirements, or optimizing data acquisition economics.
• Background with code, mathematical, multilingual, or multimodal datasets, semantic discovery, and quality ranking systems.
• Experience establishing a product function, mentoring product managers, and shaping teams in partnership with engineering leaders.
• Familiarity with synthetic data, reinforcement-learning environments, or post-training data workflows.

NVIDIA is widely considered one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the world's most forward-thinking and hardworking people on our team. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 240,000 USD - 379,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 1, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.