Turing
Staff Research Scientist
$250K–$400K
United States +3 · Staff · 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 benchmarks, synthetic data methods, reliability approaches, and scientific agents.
What you'll do
- Identify research gaps and design rigorous benchmarks and evaluations for frontier model capabilities.
- Develop and test synthetic STEM data and post-training methods, measuring effects on model capabilities.
- Research hallucination, reliability, verification, and long-horizon agentic science workflows.
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.
Nice to have
- A strong publication record is valuable.
Pay
$250,000 to $400,000 USD total pay (OTE)
Tools
Python, LLMs
AI focus
Frontier AI research focused on evaluation and benchmarks, synthetic data and post-training, hallucination and reliability, and agentic science.
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