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.
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Department: Field Engineering — Pre-Sales (Founding)
Level: Senior (Staff level considered for exceptional candidates)
Domain: STEM
Location: Strong preference for SF Bay Area but will consider Seattle and NYC.
Reports to: CRO (until VP, Field Engineering is hired)
Compensation: OTE $260,000–320,000 (Senior) or $325,000–400,000 (Staff) · 75/25 base/variable split · Equity
The Role
You will be the first technical partner to Turing's Research Partners selling and demoing custom and off-the-shelf human expert datasets into the frontier AI labs in the STEM domain. Every major lab is racing to push the frontier on multi-step reasoning over STEM data, tool use, long-horizon task completion, and evaluation that reflects real work. They buy datasets, benchmarks, graders, and expert human expertise from Turing to train, post-train, and evaluate those capabilities. Your job is to convert our technical depth into won revenue.
This is a founding Field Engineering role. The playbook, the demo library, the qualification bar, and the handoff to Production Engineering do not yet exist — you will build them.
What You'll Do
1) Technical discovery — lead the technical track on every qualified STEM opportunity
- Partner with Research Partners to run the technical conversation with lab researchers and engineers.
- Understand what agentic capability the lab is trying to unlock, what "good" looks like, and what evaluations a post-training team would actually trust.
- Qualify opportunities against a bar you help define: scope, feasibility, strategic fit.
2) Solution architecture — translate capability goals into scoped Turing deliverables
- Map research goals to Turing's offering shapes: agentic trajectories, rubric-graded reasoning tasks, tool-use evaluations, and domain-specialist-built datasets.
- Author technical proposals that frontier lab research leads accept and the Production Engineering team can execute without a rewrite.
3) Prototyping and demo-building — prove the approach before contract
- Build reference agent loops, sample multi-step evaluations, and graded trajectories that demonstrate quality before contract signature.
- The demo has to run. Expect to write real code.
4) POC ownership — take paid pilots from kick-off to scale-up decision
- Design a measurement plan the lab's research team will actually read and act on.
- Define success criteria, own the cadence, convert POC to production contract.
5) R&D interface — channel GTM-to-R&D asks for STEM opportunities
- Pre-digest technical asks before routing to R&D. Shield research time from ad hoc calendaring.
- Maintain a collaboration cadence that R&D teams trust.
6) Playbook building — codify what works so future hires scale faster than you did
- Document discovery scripts, qualification criteria, demo artifacts, and objection-handling patterns for STEM opportunities.
- Own the STEM section of the Field Engineering knowledge base.
Who We're Looking For
- 5+ years in applied AI, data engineering, or ML engineering, with meaningful work on agentic systems, RAG, tool use, or enterprise-knowledge LLM applications.
- Strong Python fluency and production experience with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, DSPy, or equivalents).
- Experience designing evaluations for multi-step reasoning or agentic systems — rubric design, trajectory grading, measurement beyond single-turn accuracy.
- Exposure to frontier STEM workflows (biology, chemistry, physics, medical, engineering, mathematics) and the data and permission realities inside them.
- A high written communication bar: you can produce a scoping document that a frontier lab research lead accepts without a rewrite.
- Commercial instinct: you want to be in customer meetings, you can read a room, and you are willing to be measured on revenue.
Strong pluses
- Prior time at a frontier AI lab, an AI startup building agentic products, or an enterprise AI team shipping to production.
- Experience with agentic or reasoning benchmarks (e.g., HLE, GPQA, or equivalents).
- Background in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical consulting.
What success looks like
30 days: first FE-led POC signed; enterprise knowledge work domain discovery playbook v1 published; three demo artifacts in the library.
60 days: win rate on STEM opportunities you cover is materially above the non-covered baseline; qualification bar codified.
180 days: a second Pre-Sales AI Solutions Engineer in the STEM domain hired behind you, ramping off your playbook.
Why Turing
- Work directly with the world's leading AI labs at the cutting edge of post-training, evaluation, and agentic AI research.
- Real impact on the path to AGI: the datasets, evaluations, and playbooks you build will directly influence frontier model development.
- Founding-team leverage. You will set the standards, not inherit them.
- Direct-to-research customers. You will spend your time talking to the people building AGI, not to procurement.
How to apply
Send a CV and a short note on a technical artifact you built — ideally something customer-facing, evaluation-adjacent, or that demonstrates how you think about technical scoping — to recruiting@turing.com. We read every submission.
Values
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We are client first: We put our clients at the center of everything we do, because their success is the ultimate measure of our value.
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We work at Start-Up Speed: We move fast, stay agile and favor action because momentum is the foundation of perfection
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We are AI forward: We help our clients build the future of Al and implement it in our own roles and workflow to amplify productivity.
Advantages of joining Turing
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Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
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Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
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Competitive compensation
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Flexible working hours
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