AI Research Scientist — Frontier STEM Benchmarks

Turing; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

In-office role (SF Bay Area)

Job summary

Turing’s STEM research team seeks exceptional AI Research Scientists to develop new benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation methods for frontier AI systems. You will identify gaps in literature, propose bold research directions, and carry projects from hypothesis through experimentation, benchmark construction, and publication.

Our focus areas include frontier STEM evaluation, synthetic data generation, hallucination and reliability, and agentic science.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research experience in machine learning, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, statistics, or another highly technical field.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate and execute original research.
• Strong understanding of modern LLMs and the frontier AI research landscape.
• Excellent experimental design, quantitative reasoning, and scientific judgment.
• Ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar technical literature and develop expertise in new areas.
• Strong Python skills and the ability to independently build research prototypes and evaluation pipelines.
• Excellent technical writing and communication.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-impact gaps in benchmark and evaluation literature and design novel benchmarks for STEM fields.
• Develop evaluations for emerging model capabilities not captured by traditional benchmarks.
• Study synthetic data generation for training and evaluation and assess downstream impact.
• Investigate hallucination, uncertainty, calibration, and verification in technical domains.
• Evaluate long-horizon scientific workflows and agentic AI experiments.

Skills

Python programming

Technical writing

Scientific judgment

Experimental design

Literature review

Communication

Education

PhD or equivalent research experience in ML/CS/math/physics/engineering

Job description

Turing’s STEM research team seeks exceptional AI Research Scientists to develop new benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation methods for frontier AI systems. You will identify gaps in literature, propose bold research directions, and carry projects from hypothesis through experimentation, benchmark construction, and publication.

Our focus areas include frontier STEM evaluation, synthetic data generation, hallucination and reliability, and agentic science.