Sr Staff SWE LLM Products

About Turing

Based in Palo Alto, California, Turing is one of the world's fastest-growing AGI infrastructure companies accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. Turing has two main business lines: Turing AGI Advancement, which works with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and Turing Intelligence, which leverages learnings from advancing frontier AGI to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for Fortune 500 Companies. Powering this growth is Turing’s AI-powered vetting and matching engine and its fine-tuning platform, ALAN, which accelerates workflows for model evaluations, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and agent development.

Turing has received numerous awards, including Forbes's "One of America's Best Startup Employers," #1 on The Information's annual list of "Most Promising B2B Companies," and Fast Company's annual list of the "World's Most Innovative Companies." Turing's leadership team includes AI technologists from industry giants Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, McKinsey, Bain, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT. For more information on Turing, visit www.turing.com. For information on upcoming Turing AGI Icons events, visit go.turing.com/agi-icons.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive our LLM Products and assume a key technical leadership role in our engineering organization. This role goes beyond delivering medium-sized projects to influencing the technical vision and architecture for large-scale, cross-functional initiatives. You will take ownership of critical engineering challenges, lead the development of advanced tooling solutions, and mentor senior engineers to elevate team performance.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will contribute to the design and delivery of scalable systems that support our data collection platforms, human operations, and research initiatives. You will act as a technical visionary, working closely with engineering leadership to establish best practices and long-term strategies for our most critical projects.

Responsibilities

1. Drive Strategic Initiatives: Own end-to-end delivery of large, complex projects, including technical design, implementation, and production rollout.
   
   
2. Define Technical Vision: Establish scalable system architectures and frameworks for AI tooling and data collection pipelines.
   
   
3. Lead by Example: Act as a technical leader, setting high standards for code quality, scalability, and security while fostering a culture of excellence.
   
   
4. Mentor and Develop Talent: Guide and support engineers at all levels, enabling them to grow technically and contribute effectively to the team’s goals.
   
   
5. Innovate in Data Generation: Design advanced human and synthetic data generation pipelines to meet cutting-edge industry needs.
   
   
6. Understand Frontier Model Needs: Align data tooling solutions with the requirements of state-of-the-art models, including training, evaluation, and deployment.
   
   
7. Collaborate with Stakeholders: Engage with product users, cross-functional teams, and leadership to gather feedback, prioritize features, and iterate rapidly.

 Exceptional Candidates May Have:

1. Demonstrated leadership in delivering large-scale, high-impact engineering projects (e.g., as a principal engineer or similar role).
   
   
2. Extensive experience in cross-functional collaboration, particularly with product, research, and operations teams.
   
   
3. Expertise in fine-tuning and deploying large language models (LLMs), linking model behavior to data quality.
   
   
4. Strong ability to navigate the balance between rapid iteration and robust systems design.
   
   

 Required Skills

1. Prototyping Expertise:
    
   1. Comfortable building MVPs rapidly and iterating with user feedback to refine solutions.
      
      
2. Tech Stack:
   
   
   1. Languages: Expert proficiency in any backend language.
      
      
   2. Frameworks: Deep experience with React.
      
      
   3. Databases: Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
      
      
3. LLM Expertise:
   
   
   1. Proficient in prompt engineering and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
      
      
   2. Skilled in Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF).
      
      
4. Scalable System Design:
   
   
   1. Proven ability to build robust, scalable, secure systems optimized for performance.

Salary Range: 200-250k

Advantages of joining Turing:

• 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
• Full-time remote opportunity

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace  and celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

For applicants from the European Union, please review Turing's GDPR notice here.