Research Scientist, STEM

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TuringPalo Alto, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United Statesfull_timemid

$150,000 – $300,000 USD

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

  • Identify high-impact gaps in existing benchmark and evaluation literature to design novel benchmarks in and across STEM fields.
  • Develop methods for generating high-quality synthetic STEM training data and study post-training performance impacts.
  • Study hallucination, uncertainty, calibration, and epistemic failure to improve factual reliability, self-correction, and verification.
  • Research AI systems capable of performing extended scientific and technical work, developing workflows for literature search, coding, and simulation.
  • Propose and execute ambitious new research programs in areas such as reasoning, model evaluation, and AI-for-science.

Soft Skills

Machine LearningComputer ScienceLarge Language ModelsScientific JudgmentTechnical WritingQuantitative Reasoning

Benefits

  • Equity

Culture

Fast-PacedStartup EnergyCustomer-ObsessedInclusive 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.

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Compensation
Base salary: $150,000 – $300,000 USD
Equity: Equity offered
Bonus: Included in OTE ($150,000 to $300,000 OTE)