Staff Research Engineer: Lead Coding AI Data & RL Equity

turing; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Turing is seeking a Staff Research Engineer to own end-to-end data and RL environment creation for coding agents and software engineering. You will lead cross-functional teams and interface directly with researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs to meet their data needs.

You will influence product direction through hands-on technical leadership, manage pipelines, and scale data generation with automated tooling and internal systems.

Qualifications

• Post-training experience on SWE tasks or experience building coding agents.
• Engineering management experience including interviewing, hiring, and QA setup.
• Fluency in Python and proficiency in one or more major languages (C++, Java, Go, Rust, or JS).
• Operational leadership and cross-functional communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead creation of datasets, RL environments, and evals for coding agents and SWE for AI lab customers.
• Ensure all shipped work meets frontier standards for realism, correctness, diversity, and difficulty.
• Set up quality rubrics, automated validation, and human review processes for all data generation stages.
• Build and lead cross-functional teams of engineers, researchers, QAs, and data creators.

Skills

Engineering Management

Python

Coding languages

Data pipelines

Education

Background in Computer Science or ML

Tools

QA processes

Job description

Turing is seeking a Staff Research Engineer to own end-to-end data and RL environment creation for coding agents and software engineering. You will lead cross-functional teams and interface directly with researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs to meet their data needs.

You will influence product direction through hands-on technical leadership, manage pipelines, and scale data generation with automated tooling and internal systems.