Turing
Research Scientist, STEM
$150K–$300K
United States +3 · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- United States
Palo Alto, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States - Education
- PhD or equivalent research experience in machine learning, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, statistics, or another highly technical field.
About the job
Conduct original research to evaluate, train, and improve frontier AI systems, including developing STEM benchmarks, synthetic data methods, reliability techniques, and scientific-agent workflows.
What you'll do
- Identify research gaps and design rigorous benchmarks, evaluations, and validation methods for frontier models.
- Develop and test synthetic STEM data and methods to improve model reliability, verification, and calibration.
- Research and evaluate AI agents performing extended scientific and technical work, including tool use and experimentation.
What they ask for
- PhD or equivalent research experience in a highly technical field.
- Demonstrated ability to formulate and execute original research.
- Strong understanding of modern LLMs and the frontier AI research landscape.
- Strong Python skills to build research prototypes and evaluation pipelines independently.
Nice to have
- Strong publication record.
Pay
$150,000 to $300,000 USD total pay (OTE)
Tools
Python, LLMs
AI focus
Frontier STEM evaluation, synthetic training data, hallucination and reliability, and agentic science research.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative