Turing
Senior Research Scientist, STEM
$250K–$350K
United States +3 · Senior · 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, from identifying research gaps through experimentation, benchmark development, and publication.
What you'll do
- Design and validate STEM and general-purpose AI benchmarks and evaluations.
- Develop and study synthetic STEM training data and methods for improving reliability and verification.
- Research long-horizon scientific agents and propose new research programs in areas such as reasoning and AI-for-science.
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 frontier AI research.
- Strong Python skills to build research prototypes and evaluation pipelines.
Nice to have
- A strong publication record.
Pay
$250,000 to $350,000 USD total pay (OTE)
Tools
Python, LLMs
AI focus
Frontier AI research spanning STEM evaluation, synthetic data, hallucination and reliability, verification, and agentic science.
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