Senior Research Scientist, STEM
Posted
TuringPalo Alto, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United Statesfull_timesenior
$250,000 – $350,000 USD
Tech Stack
Responsibilities
- Design novel benchmarks in and across STEM fields and on general model functionality to evaluate emerging capabilities.
- Develop methods for generating high-quality synthetic STEM training data and study how data quality affects downstream performance.
- Study model hallucination, uncertainty, calibration, and epistemic failure to improve factual reliability, verification, and self-correction.
- Research AI systems and agents capable of performing long-horizon scientific and technical work involving tool use and iterative reasoning.
- Propose and launch ambitious new research directions in areas like reasoning, model evaluation, and AI-for-science.
Soft Skills
Machine LearningComputer ScienceMathematicsPhysicsChemistryBiologyEngineeringStatisticsExperimental DesignQuantitative ReasoningTechnical WritingLarge Language Models
Benefits
- Equity
Culture
Startup EnergyMission-DrivenFast-PacedInclusive Hiring
Requirements
Required: PhD or equivalent research experience in machine learning, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, statistics, or another highly technical field
Regions: Us
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About Turing
Industry: saas
Size: medium
Turing works with frontier AI labs and Fortune 500 enterprises to generate high-quality datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and build agentic AI systems inside mission-critical workflows.
View company profile →Compensation
Base salary: $250,000 – $350,000 USD
Equity: Equity mentioned in compensation
Bonus: OTE
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