Other open roles
Agentic Life Science Expert
Work Expert (WE) is an independent publishing and referral website. We are not a recruiter, hiring manager, agent or employer, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by Turing. Applying takes you to the platform's own website, where we may be recorded as the referring source. We may receive a referral fee at no additional cost to you. Read our full affiliate disclosure →
Apply within 30 days of clicking - Turing only credits applications inside its 30-day attribution window.
About the Role
Turing is one of the world’s leading AGI infrastructure companies, working with frontier AI labs to accelerate model development through high-quality training data, evaluations, and engineering talent. We are seeking Computational Life Sciences experts with strong scientific programming skills to develop complex, realistic tasks for Agentic Life Sciences. You will design tasks where AI agents must independently navigate scientific data, write and execute code, use computational tools, troubleshoot intermediate results, and produce scientifically valid final outputs. The goal is to evaluate whether AI systems can perform authentic, multi-step scientific work—not simply answer scientific questions.
What You'll Do
- Design challenging, realistic agentic scientific workflows across the life sciences.
- Create tasks requiring multiple computational steps rather than single-script or simple question-and-answer solutions.
- Develop realistic input files, scientific datasets, instructions, constraints, and expected deliverables.
- Build tasks requiring agents to inspect data, select appropriate methods, execute analyses, troubleshoot problems, and synthesize results.
- Create reproducible expert solutions and objectively verifiable ground truths that run in the provided sandbox environment.
- Design robust automated or semi-automated grading criteria.
- Ensure tasks measure scientific reasoning and execution rather than memorization.
- Validate scientific assumptions, calculations, code, intermediate outputs, and final answers.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Required skills: PhD Biology, Bioinformatician / Computational Biologist
- Ph.D., postdoctoral, or equivalent research experience in the life sciences, with strong demonstrated computational and scientific programming experience.
- Strong scientific programming experience, particularly in Python.
- Experience performing multi-step computational scientific analyses.
- Ability to independently validate both scientific reasoning and computational outputs.
- Expertise in one or more areas, including bioinformatics, computational genomics, systems biology, computational neuroscience, biostatistics, computational drug discovery, computational biochemistry, structural biology, protein engineering, or computational microbiology.
- Experience with scientific libraries and command-line tools.
- Experience creating reproducible research pipelines.
- Ability to translate authentic research workflows into bounded, objectively gradable tasks.
Role Highlights
Pay & Payout
Independent contractor engagement through Turing. Apply via the link below - Turing handles vetting, onboarding and payment.
Common Questions
Opens Turing in a new tab. You pay nothing; we may earn a referral fee.
Get similar jobs every week
Similar roles
More research work you may qualify for.
Domain Expert: Chemistry
Review complex chemistry problems and evaluate AI-generated solutions for accuracy.
Medical Expert – Dermatology
Evaluate AI-generated nutrition content for accuracy and relevance.
Domain Expert: Biology
Evaluate AI nutrition content for scientific accuracy and relevance.