Turing

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Turing
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Base Salary

$200k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate business needs into technical direction.
  • Architect and build production AI systems, including multi-agent workflows, orchestration, tool use, context engineering, memory and state, retrieval-augmented generation, APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and distributed systems.
  • Lead solutions from discovery through deployment and measurable business impact.
  • Own evaluation, observability, security, reliability, latency, scalability, and cost for client systems.
  • Build trust with senior engineers and business executives while navigating ambiguity and challenging assumptions constructively.

Requirements

  • Typically 8+ years of experience building and operating sophisticated production software systems.
  • Expertise in Python, backend systems, APIs, databases, distributed systems, system design, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience building production LLM and agent systems using orchestration, tool use, context engineering, memory and state, retrieval, and multistep workflows.
  • Track record of owning complex systems from architecture through deployment and scale, with practical understanding of evaluation, observability, reliability, security, guardrails, latency, scalability, and cost.
  • Exceptional customer-facing communication, business acumen, technical leadership, and ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders in unfamiliar environments.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $200,000–$250,000 plus equity.
  • Work with frontier AI labs and enterprise customers on advanced AI systems, datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and research benchmarks.
  • Opportunities to contribute to AI research and showcase work at conferences such as ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS.
  • Collaborate with experienced colleagues from companies including Google, Meta, and Amazon.
  • In-office role in New York City, typically three to five days per week depending on client requirements, with possible work at client sites or Turing’s planned Manhattan office.

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About Turing

5,001-10,000 employees

Turing builds AI data pipelines and systems for enterprises and AI labs. It creates large-scale datasets and reinforcement-learning environments to train and evaluate models, and deploys agentic AI applications in domains like software engineering and enterprise workflows. The company also operates an AI-powered talent cloud to match and manage developers and AI trainers. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and serves Fortune 500 customers.

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