Turing
Senior Research Engineer
$250K–$350K
United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Education
- PhD or Master’s degree in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer science, or a closely related technical field; exceptional equivalent research experience will also be considered.
About the job
Conduct frontier AI research and build datasets, experiments, evaluation systems, and prototypes that improve models and translate research findings into scalable products and applications.
What you'll do
- Investigate frontier AI capabilities and methods, including synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation.
- Build, train, test, and evaluate research datasets, models, prototypes, tooling, and evaluation frameworks with rigorous, reproducible practices.
- Collaborate across research, engineering, product, and operations to apply findings and communicate or share research outcomes.
What they ask for
- PhD or Master’s degree in AI, machine learning, computer science, or a closely related technical field; exceptional equivalent research experience considered.
- Strong foundation in machine learning and practical experience designing experiments, training or evaluating models, and using modern AI tooling.
- Demonstrated research experience in synthetic or agentic data generation, reinforcement learning or post-training, AI understanding, evaluation, or benchmarks.
- Strong programming skills and sound judgment about experimental rigor, data quality, reproducibility, and evidence-based decisions.
Pay
$250,000 to $350,000 OTE (total pay)
AI focus
Frontier AI research and development involving datasets, reinforcement learning environments, synthetic and agentic data generation, post-training, model evaluation, benchmarks, and agentic systems.
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