Principal Scientist, Open-Source Synthetic Data for LLMs

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Computer and Information Research Scientists Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)

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NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Scientist to set the technical direction for synthetic data generation across our frontier model efforts. You will define and build open-source libraries within the NVIDIA NeMo ecosystem that generate synthetic datasets across text, code, structured, and multimodal data, feeding the pre- and post-training of LLMs such as Nemotron. The role blends hands-on software engineering with applied research, mentoring teams, publishing at top ML venues, and partnering with

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