Generating training data via LLMs or simulators to augment or replace human-labeled datasets, especially for rare cases, long-tail tasks, or alignment data. Primary AI lifecycle stage: data.
234 active AI roles across 63 companies in our index reference Synthetic data as of today. New postings fell 25% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (85 → 64).
The companies with the most active Synthetic data listings are: xAI (35 roles), NVIDIA (22 roles), Handshake (15 roles), Amazon (14 roles), Google (10 roles).
Synthetic data primarily belongs to the data stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Synthetic data roles concentrate at: data (55%), agents (19%).
The sectors with the most active Synthetic data hiring are: AI Frontier, Big Tech, Enterprise.
Generating training data via LLMs or simulators to augment or replace human-labeled datasets, especially for rare cases, long-tail tasks, or alignment data.
Primary AI lifecycle stage: data.
As of today, 234 active AI roles across 63 companies in our index reference Synthetic data. Hiring concentrates at the data (55%) and agents (19%) stages. Most common sectors: AI Frontier, Big Tech, Enterprise. New postings fell 25% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (85 → 64).
44 AI roles tagged synthetic_data.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rubrik | Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Enterprise | 9 | Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Model serving · Inference infra · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Oracle | Applied Scientist 3 | Enterprise | 9 | Multimodal · Evals · Fine-tuning · LLM observability |
| Salesforce | Principal Agentic Data Systems Engineer | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Agent research |
| Adobe | Principal Scientist, Generation Data Architect (Image & Video & Audio) | Enterprise | 9 | Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Vision · Audio & speech |
| Adobe | Principal Scientist - Applied Research, ASML (Multimodal Foundation Models) | Enterprise | 9 | Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Frontier research · Vision · Audio & speech |
| Handshake | AI PhD Student Researcher - Fall 2026 | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · Evals · Fine-tuning · Frontier research |
| Adobe | Research Scientist - (applied research) | Enterprise | 9 | Vision · Multimodal · Agent research · Evals · Fine-tuning |
| Datadog | AI Research Engineer - Datadog AI Research (DAIR) | Enterprise | 9 | Multimodal · Frontier research · RL post-training · RLHF · Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra · Evals |
| Adobe | Manager, Applied Science for Data | Enterprise | 8 | Multimodal |
| Datadog | Engineering Manager l - AI Platform - Evaluation & Annotation | Enterprise | 8 | Evals · Model serving · Inference infra |
| ABBYY | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Synthetic Data & Document Understanding | Enterprise | 8 | Vision · Multimodal |
| ABBYY | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - AI-Assisted Data Annotation | Enterprise | 8 | Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra · Evals · Vision · Multimodal |
| ABBYY | Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Document AI Data (Tech Lead Manager) | Enterprise | 8 | Fine-tuning · Evals · LLM observability · Vision |
| Handshake | Senior Product Manager, RL Environments — Handshake AI | Enterprise | 8 | RL robotics · Evals · Fine-tuning |
| Adobe | Applied Scientist | Enterprise | 8 | Fine-tuning · Multimodal · Vision · Audio & speech · Pretraining |
| Salesforce | Lead Agentic Data Systems Engineer | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · RAG · Tool use |
| PostHog | AI Research Engineer | Enterprise | 8 | Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Adobe | Research Scientist/Engineer - Photoshop | Enterprise | 8 | Fine-tuning |
| Adobe | Sr. Manager, Applied Science - Generative AI Data Research | Enterprise | 8 | Fine-tuning · Multimodal |
| Adobe | Research Scientist | Enterprise | 8 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Evals |
| Canva | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Multimodal Data | Enterprise | 8 | Multimodal · Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · RLHF · LLM observability |
| Canva | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Multimodal Data | Enterprise | 8 | Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Multimodal · Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Adobe | Director, Multimodal Data Research | Enterprise | 8 | Multimodal · Pretraining · Model serving |
| Datadog | Manager I, Engineering - AI Platform - Annotation & Evaluation | Enterprise | 8 | Evals · Model serving |
| Handshake | Data Development, Principal | Enterprise | 7 | |
| DocuSign | SDET | Enterprise | 7 | Evals · LLM observability · Guardrails · Agent orchestration · RAG · Model serving |
| Handshake | Strategic Projects Lead | Enterprise | 7 | Evals |
| Adobe | Principal Product Manager, Research and AI - Data | Enterprise | 7 | Fine-tuning · Reward modeling · Evals · Multimodal |
| Salesforce | Lead Agentic Data Systems Engineer | Enterprise | 7 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Model serving |
| Canva | Senior Visual AI Designer (6 Month Contract) | Enterprise | 7 | Evals · Fine-tuning · Vision · Multimodal |