Research Engineer - Code

About Turing

Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is the world’s leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises looking to deploy advanced AI systems. Turing accelerates frontier research with high-quality data, specialized talent, and training pipelines that advance thinking, reasoning, coding, multimodality, and STEM. For enterprises, Turing builds proprietary intelligence systems that integrate AI into mission-critical workflows, unlock transformative outcomes, and drive lasting competitive advantage.

Recognized by Forbes, The Information, and Fast Company among the world’s top innovators, Turing’s leadership team includes AI technologists from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, McKinsey, Bain, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT. Learn more at

Turing builds large-scale datasets and reinforcement learning (RL) environments that power post-training for the world’s leading AI labs and enterprises. We create RL environments to evaluate and improve our customers' models on complex, long-range, multi-step workflows across high-GDP-value domains such as Finance, Sales, Retail, Developer Tools, Collaboration, Customer Experience.

The environments vary depending on the model capability being evaluated / improved, a few examples of environment types are listed here:

• Environments for Software Engineering / coding agents
• MCP-based Environments for general function-calling agents across various enterprise and consumer applications

The Staff Research Engineer – Code will own end-to-end the creation of datasets, RL environments, and evals for frontier AI labs in the domain of coding agents and software engineering. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you influence revenue directly – you will be mapped to one or more AI labs and interface directly with researchers / engineers at those labs to understand their needs and build data offerings to address those needs.

To achieve this, you will build and manage teams of software engineers, researchers, QAs, and contractors/data-annotators from Turing’s talent pool of 4M+ developers.

You’ll be responsible for delivering projects at frontier quality and scale—owning data quality, throughput, and timely delivery. You’ll define and manage data pipelines, validation workflows, and review processes to ensure datasets meet the highest standards for realism, correctness, and diversity. You’ll also develop automations, synthetic data generation systems, and internal tools to scale production efficiently.

In short, you’ll run your project like a startup within Turing, owning both the technical architecture and the operational execution required to produce best-in-class datasets/environments/evals to make the world’s best coding agents and models even better at real-world coding tasks across the software development lifecycle.

1. End-to-End Ownership:
Data Quality, Process Design, and Team Building

• Lead the creation of datasets, RL environments, and evals focused on Coding Agents / Software Engineering for one or more AI lab customers.
• Ensure that everything you ship to clients meets frontier standards for realism, correctness, diversity, and difficulty.
• Set up quality rubrics, automated validation scripts, and human review processes for every stage of data generation.
• Build and lead cross-functional teams of software engineers, researchers, QAs, and data creators drawn from Turing’s 4M+ developer network.
• Interview, onboard, train, and mentor team members to ensure consistent output quality and technical excellence.

2. Collaborate with Researchers at Frontier Labs

• Act as the primary technical point of contact for your customer projects, interfacing directly with researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs to understand their coding agent roadmap and model data needs, to gather feedback, and to co-define success criteria for your projects.
• Provide regular progress updates, surface insights from model evaluations, and incorporate client feedback to improve future iterations.

3. Drive Research, Sales Enablement, and Industry Thought Leadership

• Fine-tune models in-house on Turing-generated datasets…