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About the Role
Turing helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies. We are seeking an experienced Chemistry expert to lead a pod of trainers building realistic, terminal-based scientific tasks for Terminal Bench Science. You will review every task your trainers produce for chemical correctness, reproducibility, safety, and grader reliability, and coach trainers to consistently deliver high-quality, challenging tasks.
What You'll Do
- Review trainer tasks end to end, including task statements, molecular structures, spectra and datasets, force-field parameters, environments, reference solutions, and automated tests.
- Verify that tasks reflect authentic chemistry research workflows and require genuine multi-step reasoning rather than a single library call or lookup.
- Check that software versions, force fields, basis sets, functionals, and dependencies are pinned and that results are reproducible.
- Validate chemical correctness, including units such as Hartree, eV, kcal/mol, and kJ/mol; charge and spin multiplicity; stereochemistry and tautomer handling; method specifications; SCF and geometry convergence; frequency checks for minima and transition states; equilibration; and sampling adequacy.
- Ensure tolerances reflect method-dependent, numerical, and stochastic variation without accepting chemically incorrect results.
- Ensure graders verify energies, geometries, thermodynamic quantities, rate constants, spectral assignments, or molecular properties rather than formatting.
- Ensure tasks cannot be gamed through hard-coded outputs, reading test files, or bypassing the intended computation.
- Screen tasks for chemical safety and dual-use concerns.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Required skills: Basic Programming
- Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced experience in chemistry or a closely related field.
- Strong programming skills in Python, C/C++, Julia, or Fortran, with Linux and terminal proficiency.
- Hands-on experience with computational chemistry, molecular simulation, cheminformatics, or chemical data analysis.
- Proven experience reviewing code, analyses, manuscripts, or research outputs.
- Experience mentoring or leading small technical or research teams.
- Excellent written communication skills for providing precise, constructive feedback
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