Senior Research Engineer — Frontier AI & RL Systems

Turing Enterprises, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Turing Enterprises, Inc. is seeking a Senior Research Engineer to advance frontier AI systems at the intersection of research and engineering.

You will design and run rigorous experiments, develop research-grade prototypes and tooling, and collaborate across Research, Engineering, Product, and Operations to translate promising ideas into scalable applications. You will help drive data generation, reinforcement learning environments, and post-training evaluations that improve model capabilities

Qualifications

• 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.
• Strong foundation in machine learning and practical experience designing experiments, training or evaluating models, and working with modern AI tooling.
• Demonstrated research experience in synthetic or agentic data generation, reinforcement learning or post-training, AI understanding, evaluation, or benchmarks.
• Strong programming skills and the ability to implement, test, and iterate quickly in a research environment.
• Sound judgment around experimental rigor, data quality, reproducibility, and evidence-based decision-making.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to work effectively across research and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Conduct Research on Frontier AI Systems: investigate capabilities, formulate questions, explore new data generation and evaluation approaches, stay current with ML advances.
• Build and Evaluate Research Systems: develop datasets, experiments, prototypes, tooling, and evaluation frameworks; train and test models; analyze results.
• Translate Research into Practical Impact: collaborate with Research, Engineering, Product, and Operations; translate findings into product improvements and scalable applications.
• Contribute to the Research Community: share findings through reports, publications, open-source work, and conferences; participate in peer review and mentorship.

Skills

Research background

Technical depth

Agentic data generation

Reinforcement learning

Experiment design

Communication

Education

PhD or Master’s in AI/ML/CS

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Turing Enterprises, Inc. is seeking a Senior Research Engineer to advance frontier AI systems at the intersection of research and engineering.

You will design and run rigorous experiments, develop research-grade prototypes and tooling, and collaborate across Research, Engineering, Product, and Operations to translate promising ideas into scalable applications. You will help drive data generation, reinforcement learning environments, and post-training evaluations that improve model capabilities