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Staff Research Engineer – Frontier AI, RL & Evaluation
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About the Role
Turing builds large-scale datasets and reinforcement learning environments that power post-training for leading AI labs and enterprises. Our environments evaluate and improve AI models on complex, long-range, multi-step workflows across high-value domains such as Finance, Sales, Retail, Developer Tools, Collaboration, and Customer Experience. Our work includes: We are looking for Staff Research Engineers to advance our understanding of frontier AI systems and develop practical innovations in data, algorithms, evaluation, and training.
What You'll Do
- Conduct Research on Frontier AI Systems
- Investigate the capabilities, limitations, and training methods of frontier AI systems.
- Formulate research questions that inform Turing’s products, platforms, and technical strategy.
- Explore new approaches to synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation.
- Stay current with advances in machine learning and identify opportunities for meaningful technical contributions.
- Build and Evaluate Research Systems
- Develop research-grade datasets, experiments, prototypes, tooling, and evaluation frameworks.
- Train, test, and evaluate models using modern AI and machine learning tools.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Required skills: QA
- PhD or Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a closely related technical field. Exceptional equivalent research experience will also be considered.
- Minimum 7+ years of professional experience with significant research engineering experience working on machine learning or frontier AI systems.
- Strong foundations in machine learning and practical experience designing experiments, training models, evaluating models, or developing AI systems.
- Demonstrated research experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Synthetic or agentic data generation
- Reinforcement learning or post-training
- Model understanding
- AI evaluation
Role Highlights
Pay & Payout
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