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

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Requirements

Required: PhD or equivalent research experience in machine learning, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, statistics, or another highly technical field
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