Turing

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Turing
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Base Salary

$200k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with customers to uncover high-value opportunities, clarify business workflows, challenge assumptions, and define desired outcomes.
  • Architect and build production AI systems involving 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, scale, and measurable client impact.
  • Own evaluation, observability, security, reliability, latency, scalability, cost, and guardrails for delivered systems.
  • Communicate technical concepts clearly and collaborate with senior engineers, business executives, and other stakeholders.
  • Help establish the operating playbook and processes for the initial Forward-Deployed Engineering team.

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.
  • Practical understanding of evaluation, observability, reliability, security, guardrails, latency, scalability, and cost.
  • Strong customer and technical leadership, business acumen, communication, judgment, and ability to navigate ambiguity.
  • Ability to earn trust quickly, challenge assumptions constructively, work with stakeholders, and remain calm under pressure.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the frontier of AI and contribute to datasets, reinforcement learning environments, benchmarks, and enterprise AI deployments.
  • Opportunities to contribute to AI research and showcase work at conferences such as ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS.
  • Collaboration with experienced AI professionals from leading technology companies.
  • In-office work typically three to five days per week, at a client site or planned Manhattan office, with the role based in the Los Angeles Metro area or within reasonable commuting distance.
  • Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity, inclusion, and authenticity.

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Forward Deployed
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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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