Turing · 1 month ago
Research Engineer - Post Training
Palo Alto, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$170K/yr - $220K/yrTuring is a leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs based in San Francisco. The Research Engineer role focuses on building foundational systems for generating and refining data to support advanced AI, with responsibilities including designing data pipelines and advancing reinforcement learning algorithms.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIInformation TechnologyMachine LearningSoftware Engineering
Responsibilities
Design and implement large-scale data pipelines for RL, SFT, and post-training workflows to create and refine high-quality datasets
Develop and iterate on simulated or interactive environments to train, evaluate, and stress-test reasoning and coding agents
Advance reinforcement learning algorithms and generalizable reward models to improve model reasoning, coding, and decision-making
Define and improve data quality and evaluation metrics to ensure models are learning from the best possible signals
Implement scalable model evaluation frameworks to measure progress in reasoning, code generation, and agentic capabilities
Collaborate cross-functionally with research, data, multimodal, and product teams to bring cutting-edge research into real-world impact
Qualification
Required
Strong software engineering and systems-building skills
Deep understanding of machine learning and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs)
Hands-on experience improving model behavior through data-driven methods and reinforcement learning (SFT, PPO, DPO, or similar)
Familiarity with large-scale data generation and evaluation pipelines
Experience developing benchmarks and evaluation metrics for reasoning, coding, or multi-agent systems
Proven ability to design or optimize models for complex challenges such as multi-modality, long-context reasoning, or multi-agent orchestration
Preferred
Experience building or scaling infrastructure for large-scale RL or post-training
Benefits
Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
Competitive compensation
Flexible working hours
Company
Turing
Turing advances frontier AI and builds real-world systems for Fortune 500 companies, governments, and the world’s leading AI labs.
Founded in 2018
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$270.19MKey Investors
Khazanah NasionalAltaIR CapitalWestBridge Capital
2025-03-06Series E· $111M
2021-12-07Convertible Note· $6.85M
2021-10-04Series D· $87M
Leadership Team
Jonathan Siddharth
Founder & CEO
Vijay Krishnan
Founder & CTO
Recent News
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