Frontier AI Research Engineer - RL, Data & Prototyping

turing; USA; Remote; USD 250.000 - 400.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Equity

Startup pace

Zusammenfassung

Turing is seeking a Staff Research Engineer to push frontier AI systems through rigorous research and practical engineering. You will work at the intersection of foundational research and applied AI, shaping large-scale datasets, RL environments, and evaluation frameworks for post-training capabilities.

You will publish, contribute to open-source projects, and collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to translate research insights into scalable, impactful products.

Qualifikationen

• Strong research background in machine learning, AI systems, or a closely related discipline.
• Hands-on experience designing experiments, building prototypes, and evaluating models at scale.
• Familiarity with reinforcement learning, post-training techniques, and modern evaluation methodologies.
• Ability to translate research into practical, scalable applications with measurable impact.
• Excellent communication skills for cross-functional audiences.
• Track record of publications, open-source work, or equivalent outputs.

Aufgaben

• Design and run rigorous experiments investigating the capabilities, limitations, and training methods of frontier AI systems.
• Develop research-grade datasets, prototypes, tooling, and evaluation frameworks for coding agents, computer-use agents, and function-calling agents.
• Train, test, and evaluate models using modern AI and machine learning tools, applying sound practices for reproducibility and data quality.
• Translate research findings into improvements for products, platforms, and AI capabilities by collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams.
• Explore new approaches to synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, and benchmarking.
• Share findings through technical reports, publications, open-source contributions, workshops, or conference participation.

Kenntnisse

Frontier AI research

Experiment design

Prototype development

Model evaluation at scale

Communication across teams

Publications/open-source contributions

Jobbeschreibung

Turing is seeking a Staff Research Engineer to push frontier AI systems through rigorous research and practical engineering. You will work at the intersection of foundational research and applied AI, shaping large-scale datasets, RL environments, and evaluation frameworks for post-training capabilities.

You will publish, contribute to open-source projects, and collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to translate research insights into scalable, impactful products.