Staff Research Scientist, STEM

Posted

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

$250,000 – $400,000 USD

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

  • Identify high-impact gaps in existing benchmark and evaluation literature and design novel benchmarks in and across STEM fields.
  • Develop methods for generating high-quality synthetic STEM training data and study downstream performance impacts.
  • Study hallucination, uncertainty, calibration, and epistemic failure in technical domains to improve factual reliability.
  • Research and evaluate long-horizon scientific agents and workflows capable of performing extended scientific work.
  • Propose and launch ambitious new research programs in areas such as reasoning, model evaluation, and AI-for-science.

Soft Skills

Machine LearningComputer ScienceMathematicsPhysicsChemistryBiologyEngineeringStatisticsQuantitative ReasoningTechnical WritingExperimental Design

Benefits

  • Equity

Culture

Startup EnergyImpact-OrientedInclusive Hiring

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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