Senior AI Research Scientist — Frontier Benchmarks & Data

Turing; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Turing seeks a Senior Research Scientist to advance frontier benchmarks, synthetic data, and evaluation methodologies. You will propose bold research directions, design rigorous experiments, and publish results that shape the field.

The role emphasizes evaluating frontier STEM capabilities, reducing hallucination, and enabling reliable, agentic scientific work. Office-based, five days a week, in San Francisco, Palo Alto, or Seattle, with compensation ranging from $250,000 to $350,000 plus equity.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research experience in a highly technical field.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate and execute original research.
• Strong understanding of modern LLMs and frontier AI research.
• Excellent experimental design, quantitative reasoning and judgment.
• Strong Python skills to build research prototypes and evaluation pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-impact gaps in benchmark and evaluation literature.
• Design novel benchmarks in STEM fields and model functionality.
• Develop evaluations for emerging model capabilities.
• Design rigorous task-generation, grading, contamination-control and validation.
• Build benchmarks that become valuable research contributions.
• Develop methods for generating high-quality synthetic STEM training data.
• Study how data quality affects downstream performance.
• Study hallucination, uncertainty, calibration, and verification.
• Investigate agentic science workflows and collaboration.
• Propose new research directions and programs at Turing.

Skills

Python

Experimental design

Scientific writing

Data analysis

Communication

Education

PhD or equivalent research experience

Job description

Turing seeks a Senior Research Scientist to advance frontier benchmarks, synthetic data, and evaluation methodologies. You will propose bold research directions, design rigorous experiments, and publish results that shape the field.

The role emphasizes evaluating frontier STEM capabilities, reducing hallucination, and enabling reliable, agentic scientific work. Office-based, five days a week, in San Francisco, Palo Alto, or Seattle, with compensation ranging from $250,000 to $350,000 plus equity.