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Data Acquisition Lead, Frontier Environments

Join the team shaping the future of AI at Scale. Scale builds RL environments: sandboxed replicas of the digital spheres where real knowledge work occurs and built from the operating data of the companies that actually hold it. As the Data

Company

Scale AI

Location

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-21T19:04:22+00:00

Scale AI is hiring a Data Acquisition Lead for Frontier Environments, on-site in San Francisco or New York. The role owns commercial data acquisition: mapping companies that hold useful datasets, choosing domains worth pursuing, structuring deals with legal, and closing from outreach to signature. It also involves translating dataset value for research teams and turning manual work into a repeatable pipeline. The posting asks for 5+ years in business development, corp dev, commercial strategy, or early-stage GTM, and familiarity with post-training, RL, evals, or synthetic data. Pay is $182,400–$228,000.