Machine Learning / Data Engineer

turing; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Turing is seeking a Senior ML & Data Engineer focused on Data Quality and Sensitive Data Compliance. This hands-on IC role requires building ML models to detect sensitive entities, ensuring no PHI/PII leaks, and maintaining robust validation and audit processes.

You will collaborate with a senior ML lead and fellow engineers to implement scalable, compliant data pipelines, without client-facing duties. You will design assays for data quality, implement regression gates in CI/CD, and work on

Qualifications

• Strong Python for ML development and data validation using pytest or similar.
• Solid SQL and data validation across pipeline stages.
• Familiarity with HIPAA Safe Harbor, GDPR/LGPD, PCI DSS for regulated data.
• Experience building and testing NER or ML-based detection systems.
• Understanding re-identification risk and data privacy.
• Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and evaluate ML models for de-identification across text and images.
• Build and maintain validation suites for data pipelines and data quality checks.
• Develop replacement pipelines to map entities consistently across files.
• Run audits and CI/CD regression gates to enforce data privacy compliance.
• Collaborate with an ML lead and engineering team; no client-facing duties.
• Surface quality issues and drive fixes with product and engineering teams.

Skills

Python for ML

SQL

NER ML models

Data validation

Attention to detail

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

pytest

Great Expectations

Pandera

Job description

About Turing

Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate high-quality datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and frontier research benchmarks that improve model capabilities in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and advanced STEM reasoning. In software engineering, Turing is the largest and longest-running data provider in the category. Turing also works with Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail, automotive, and CPG to build and deploy end-to-end agentic AI systems inside mission-critical workflows. By operating on both sides, Turing closes the loop between frontier research and enterprise deployment, turning real-world deployment signals into better data, evaluations, and more capable models. Learn more at www.turing.com .

Senior ML & Data Engineer — Data Quality & Sensitive Data Compliance

This is a full-time remote role based in Brazil or Colombia.

About the role

Enterprise data flows through our connectors, gets processed, and passes through a sanitization layer before anything downstream touches it. Two things have to be true at every step: the data is what we think it is, and no sensitive information — PII, PHI, company identifiable information (CII), or financial data — gets through. You'll own both. You'll do this primarily by building the machine learning that detects sensitive entities in text and image data and replaces them consistently at scale.

This is a hands-on IC engineering role with a QA mindset. You'll build the detection models, validation infrastructure, adversarial test sets, and audit processes that let us make strong claims about data quality and de-identification performance — and back them up with evidence. You'll work closely with a senior ML lead, with no client-facing responsibilities.

What you’ll do

Data Quality

• Run deep dives into enterprise data to assess quality: topic coherence across connectors, domain depth within connectors, completeness, and consistency
• Design and automate validation suites for data pipelines — schema checks, completeness, drift detection, and reconciliation across raw → processed → sanitized stages
• Surface and characterize quality issues in ways that engineering and product can act on
• Design, train, and evaluate ML models (NER and other approaches) that detect sensitive entities across text and image-based documents such as scans, invoices, and presentations
• Build replacement pipelines that substitute detected entities with coherent alternatives, so the same entity always maps to the same replacement across every file in a corpus and the data stays useful
• Run these algorithms over large volumes of data to prepare it for downstream agentic task building
• Build adversarial test sets for de-identification across all sensitive data classes: edge cases, obfuscated identifiers, multilingual entities, OCR noise, and formats designed to slip past detectors
• Cover company identifiable information specifically — organization names and aliases, domains and email patterns, internal project and system names, org charts, vendor and partner relationships, contract terms, and any combination of details that could re-identify the source enterprise
• Cover financial data — account and routing numbers, card numbers, revenue and pricing figures, transaction records, tax IDs, and financial statements
• Measure and report de-identification performance by data class — entity-level precision and recall, leak rates, false-negative audits, and replacement consistency
• Implement regression gates in CI/CD so no pipeline change ships without passing data quality and sensitive-data checks
• Run sampling-based human-in-the-loop audits and maintain the audit trail as compliance evidence
• Partner with engineering on root-cause analysis when inconsistencies or leaks are found, and drive fixes to closure

What we’re looking for

• About 4 to 5 years of hands-on machine learning experience, with ML as your primary background
• Strong Python for ML development and data validation (pytest, Great Expectations, Pandera, or similar)
• Solid SQL and experience validating data across pipeline stages
• Familiarity with sensitive data categories and the relevant standards — HIPAA Safe Harbor for PHI, GDPR/LGPD for PII, PCI DSS for cardholder data, and confidentiality/NDA obligations for company information
• Experience building and testing NER or other ML-based detection systems: building labeled eval sets, computing precision/recall, handling non-determinism
• Understanding of re-identification risk — how seemingly innocuous details combine to reveal an organization or individual
• Comfort with ambiguity and a fast-moving environment
• A skeptical, detail-oriented approach — you assume things are broken until you've proven otherwise

Nice to have

• Computer vision and OCR experience, especially building, scaling, and evaluating document pipelines for contracts, statements, invoices, presentations, and internal documents
• Hands-on experience with financial or healthcare data, including the privacy requirements specific to those industries
• Startup experience
• Auditing LLM or VLM outputs
• Synthetic sensitive-data generation (PII, PHI, company and financial records)
• Familiarity with the GCP data stack (BigQuery, GCS, Cloud Run jobs) and CI/CD integration
• Experience handling multi-tenant enterprise data with strict customer confidentiality requirements
• Compliance reporting or working with auditors

Why this role matters

Our enterprise customers trust us with their data on the condition that it can never be traced back to them. Every downstream model, dashboard, and customer commitment depends on the data being clean and the sanitization layer being airtight. When you find a leak, you’ve prevented an incident. When you prove there isn’t one, you’ve earned the trust that lets the rest of the company move fast.

Values

• We are client first: We put our clients at the center of everything we do, because their success is the ultimate measure of our value.
• We work at Start-Up Speed: We move fast, stay agile and favor action because momentum is the foundation of perfection
• We are AI forward: We help our clients build the future of Al and implement it in our own roles and workflow to amplify productivity.

Advantages of joining Turing

• Work at the frontier of AI, helping the world’s leading AI labs improve their most advanced models by building expert datasets, RL environments, and first-of-a-kind benchmarks.
• Contribute to leading-edge AI research and showcase your work at top conferences such as ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS.
• Bring frontier AI innovation to the enterprise, applying lessons learned from leading AI labs to solve real-world business challenges.
• Collaborate with and learn from exceptional colleagues with deep AI experience from Google, Meta, Amazon, and other leading technology companies.
• Move at the pace of AI innovation, with the speed, ownership, and impact of a startup.

Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplaceand celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.