Turing

Forward Deployed AI Engineer (In Training)

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Base Salary

$170k - $210k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with customers to identify high-value opportunities, understand workflows, and define business outcomes for AI solutions.
  • Architect and build production AI systems including multi-agent workflows, orchestration, tool use, context engineering, memory and state, RAG, APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and distributed systems.
  • Complete the eight-week Turing Akademia placement through intensive technical training and production-oriented projects.
  • Lead solutions from discovery through deployment and measurable impact while owning evaluation, observability, security, reliability, latency, scalability, and cost.
  • Present work to stakeholders, manage expectations, explain technical decisions, and respond constructively to pushback.
  • Transition to live Turing Enterprise AI client projects after successfully completing the initial placement.

Requirements

  • Typically 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, full-stack developer, or equivalent production engineering role.
  • Strong foundation in programming, APIs, databases, backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and software development practices.
  • Ability to explain technical concepts clearly, navigate ambiguity, work with stakeholders, and remain calm under pressure.
  • Demonstrated initiative, ownership, problem-solving ability, responsiveness to feedback, and ability to learn new technologies quickly.
  • Prior experience with AI, LLMs, RAG, or agentic systems is helpful but not required.
  • Ability to work in the New York City area or within reasonable commuting distance and work in person three to five days per week depending on client requirements.

Benefits

  • $170,000–$210,000 base salary plus equity.
  • Eight-week intensive Turing Akademia development experience with hands-on technical training, production-oriented projects, and direct feedback.
  • Opportunity to work at the frontier of AI, contribute to datasets, reinforcement learning environments, benchmarks, and enterprise AI deployments.
  • Opportunity to contribute to AI research and showcase work at conferences such as ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS.
  • Collaboration with colleagues with experience at Google, Meta, Amazon, and other leading technology companies.
  • In-office work in New York City, typically three to five days per week depending on client requirements.

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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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