Staff Research Engineer, Frontier Data

Job overview

The Staff Research Engineer, Frontier Data role is listed onsite in Seattle, WA. Compensation is $250,000 to $400,000 OTE plus equity. Turing develops datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and benchmarks for frontier AI labs and enterprise AI applications. The role advances research and practical engineering for frontier AI systems through experiments, research-grade prototypes, datasets, tooling, and evaluation frameworks. It connects research findings to scalable product and platform improvements through collaboration with research, engineering, product, and operations teams.

What you'll do

• Investigate frontier AI capabilities, limitations, and training methods
• formulate research questions
• explore synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation
• develop datasets, experiments, prototypes, tooling, and evaluation frameworks
• train, test, and evaluate models
• analyze results and establish rigorous, reproducible practices
• collaborate across teams and communicate findings
• contribute to research discussions, mentorship, and appropriate publications or community activities.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff research engineer

frontier data

seattle wa

turing

artificial intelligence

machine learning

reinforcement learning

post-training

ai evaluation

synthetic data

research engineering

$250k-$400k ote

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity
• opportunities to work with leading AI labs and enterprises, contribute to research, and share work through technical publications and conferences.

Why this role

$250,000-$400,000 OTE plus equity; work on frontier AI research, datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and benchmarks with AI labs and enterprises.

About the employer

Turing is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.