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Job responsibilities

  • Identify business issues and product/service enhancement possibilities
  • Make strategic or tactical suggestions based on your analysis
  • Use your knowledge of data cleansing and wrangling, quantitative analysis, and data mining to solve problems
  • Look past the stats to see how people connect with our customers and products
  • Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to address issues and uncover trends and opportunities
  • Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches
  • Forecasting and setting product team goals, designing and evaluating experiments
  • Monitoring important product KPIs and figuring out what's causing them to change
  • Creating and evaluating reports and dashboards
  • Build major data sets to enable operational and exploratory analysis
  • Defining and evaluating key metrics
  • Specifying what should be included in the upcoming roadmap
  • Identifying new levers to assist in the movement of critical metrics
  • Creating user behavior models for analysis or to drive manufacturing systems
  • Influencing product teams through the presentation of data-based recommendations
  • Communicating the state of business, experiment results, etc. to product teams
  • Educating analytics and product teams on best practices

Minimum requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree/MA or Ph.D. with a focus in Business, Math, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Science or Engineering
  • 3+ years of professional experience in Data science jobs (rare exceptions for highly skilled candidates)
  • Strong understanding of data mining, data models, segmentation techniques, and database design development
  • Ability to structure, analyze, and extract data according to business requirements
  • Experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, MATLAB)
  • Fluency in English to collaborate with engineering managers
  • Work full-time (40 hours/week) with a 4-hour overlap with US time zones

Preferred skills

  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate large amounts of data with attention to detail and accuracy
  • Applied statistics or experimentation (i.e. A/B testing) in an industry setting
  • Expertise in relevant fields of technical writing, including reports, inquiries, and presentations
  • Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills

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How to become a Data Scientist?

Getting data science jobs requires a mix of technical skills, analytical thinking, and domain knowledge. Data scientists are specialists with a focus on analysis, utilizing both technological tools and insights from social sciences to detect patterns and handle data effectively. Their approach involves leveraging industry know-how, contextual understanding, and the ability to question prevailing assumptions to address business challenges.

What is the scope of Data science jobs?

The scope of data science jobs is extensive and includes various industries such as finance, healthcare, retail, and technology. Data scientists play a pivotal role in extracting meaningful insights from vast datasets to inform business decisions, optimize processes, and drive innovation. With the increase of data in today's digital age, the demand for skilled data professionals continues to rise. Additionally, the emergence of specialized fields like artificial intelligence and big data further widens the scope, offering diverse career opportunities within data science jobs, such as:

  • Data Scientist: A data scientist employs artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to analyze data, uncover patterns, and identify trends, enabling informed decision-making based on data insights.
  • Data Administrator: A data analyst sifts through data to extract relevant information for business purposes. They oversee data flow and trends, providing support to their teams in understanding and utilizing data effectively.
  • Data Engineer: Responsible for maintaining the integrity, performance, and security of organizational databases, a data engineer ensures data reliability. Proficient in relational databases, disaster recovery protocols, and reporting tools, they manage database operations efficiently.

What are the roles and responsibilities of Data science jobs?

Data scientists play a crucial role in various industries by extracting insights from data to inform decision-making and drive innovation. Their roles and responsibilities typically include:

1. Data Analysis: Analyzing large datasets to identify patterns, trends, and correlations using statistical methods and machine learning algorithms.

2. Data Modeling: Developing predictive models and algorithms to forecast future trends, behavior, or outcomes based on historical data.

3. Data Visualization: Creating visual representations of data through charts, graphs, and dashboards to communicate findings effectively to stakeholders.

4. Machine Learning: Applying machine learning techniques to build and train models for tasks such as classification, regression, clustering, and recommendation systems.

5. Data Cleaning and Preprocessing: Cleaning and preprocessing raw data to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness before analysis.

6 Experimentation and Testing: Designing and conducting experiments to validate hypotheses and improve model performance.

7. Ethical Considerations: Ensuring ethical use of data and maintaining data privacy and security in accordance with regulations and best practices.

Skills required to become a Data Scientist

To excel as a data scientist, you will need the following skills:

  • Proficiency in programming languages like Python, R, or SQL for data manipulation and analysis.
  • Strong foundation in mathematics and statistics for effective modeling and interpretation.
  • Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and techniques for predictive analytics and pattern recognition.
  • Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Matplotlib to communicate insights visually.
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills to tackle complex data-related challenges.
  • Domain expertise in specific industries enhances understanding and contextualization of data.
  • Continuous learning and adaptability to stay abreast of evolving technologies and methodologies in data science.

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AI Quality Analyst - Portuguese (Portugal)

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 deploying advanced AI systems. Turing supports customers in two ways: first, by accelerating frontier research with high-quality data, advanced training pipelines, plus top AI researchers who specialize in coding, reasoning, STEM, multilinguality, multimodality, and agents; and second, by applying that expertise to help enterprises transform AI from proof of concept into proprietary intelligence with systems that perform reliably, deliver measurable impact, and drive lasting results on the P&L.

Role Overview:

As an AI Quality Analyst, you will evaluate a new personalization feature for Gemini. You will assess how well the model uses information from your past Gemini conversations, Gmail, Google Search, and YouTube activity to make responses more relevant and helpful. This role requires a unique blend of creativity and analytical rigor. You will actively design prompts from the perspective of your own personal experiences. You will then use your analytical skills to assess the quality of the model's personalized responses, evaluating dimensions like Grounding, Integration, and Helpfulness.


Key Qualifications

  • Portugueese Proficiency: Ability to read and write in Portuguese with a high degree of comp, as Portuguese is the focus language for this project.
  • Personal Account Usage: Willingness to use your primary personal Google account (not a testing account) and enable personal data sources for a genuine assessment.
  • Schedule Flexibility: Full-time availability in your local time zone is required.  We are staffing a global, 24-hour operations team.
  • Exceptional Analytical Thinking: Demonstrate ability to evaluate nuanced and ambiguous AI responses, specifically assessing personalization quality.
  • Creative Prompt Engineering: Experience in designing creative, multi-turn starting prompts based on personal context to thoroughly test the model's capabilities.
  • Strong Evaluation Acumen: Understanding of personalization concepts, including the ability to identify incorrect personalization, poor inferences, and forced connections.
  • Meticulous Attention to Detail: The ability to review Side-by-Side (SxS) model responses and spot subtle differences in naturalness and overnarrating.
  • Excellent Written Communication: Superior ability to write clear, concise, and structured rationales for model rankings, explicitly referencing specific turn numbers.
  • Feedback: Ability to provide constructive feedback and detailed annotations.
  • Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Independence: Self-motivated and able to work independently in a remote setting.
  • Technical Setup: Desktop/Laptop set up with a good internet connection.


Description:

  • In this role, you will be part of a dynamic team focused on evaluating the quality of personalized AI interactions. Your day-to-day work will involve:
  • Designing and executing multi-turn conversational prompts (typically 1-5 turns) that require the AI to utilize your personal information and experiences.
  • Evaluating model responses based on your intent from the starting prompt, checking if the personalization was appropriately applied.
  • Analyzing responses for Grounding issues, ensuring claims about you are supported by evidence and not flawed inferences or hallucinations.
  • Assessing Integration quality to ensure personal data is woven naturally into the response without robotic "overnarrating".
  • Rigorously evaluating and stack-ranking two model responses side-by-side (SxS) to determine which is overall more helpful, easy to use, and enjoyable.
  • Writing clear, defensible rationales for your comparisons, explicitly referencing where issues or positive aspects occurred in the conversation.
  • Extracting and verifying "Debug Info" from the model to confirm that chat summaries and data sources were properly utilized.
  • Maintaining strict data hygiene by deleting evaluation conversations to prevent them from polluting your future chat history.


Education & Experience

  • BS/BA degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field (e.g., Policy, Law, Ethics, Linguistics, Journalism, Computer Science, or a related analytical field).
  • Experience in data annotation, AI quality evaluation, content moderation, or a related role is strongly preferred.

Offer Details:

  • Commitments Required: at least 4 hours per day and upto 40 hours per week with 4 hours of overlap with PST.
  • Engagement type: Contractor
  • Engagement Length: 3 months
  • Our offered rate for this project is $15 per hour.

Evaluation Process -

  • Shortlisted candidates will be sent a Job Interest Form.
  • After the profile review, an assessment will be shared, which must be completed within 24 hours.
  • Based on the assessment outcomes, shortlisted candidates will be contacted to discuss the pre‑onboarding requirements.
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AI Engineer

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 deploying advanced AI systems. Turing supports customers in two ways: first, by accelerating frontier research with high-quality data, advanced training pipelines, plus top AI researchers who specialize in coding, reasoning, STEM, multilinguality, multimodality, and agents; and second, by applying that expertise to help enterprises transform AI from proof of concept into proprietary intelligence with systems that perform reliably, deliver measurable impact, and drive lasting results on the P&L


Role Overview


We are looking for an AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM post-training and reinforcement learning workflows. The role focuses on fine-tuning open-weight models, building reward systems, and improving model performance through scalable training, evaluation, and data curation


What does day-to-day life look like?

  • Design and execute fine-tuning pipelines for open-weight models (Qwen, Llama, Mistral families) using SFT → DPO → GRPO progressions on tool-use and agentic data.
  • Implement and tune LoRA / QLoRA adapters for parameter-efficient fine-tuning; understand when full fine-tuning vs PEFT is the right call.
  • Build reward functions and verifiers for RL training  including programmatic verifiers, LLM-as-judge rubrics, and state-transition checks against gym environments.
  • Generate, curate, and filter RL tool-use training data: golden trajectories, preference pairs, on-policy rollouts, and rejection-sampled completions.
  • Run distributed training on multi-GPU setups; manage inference at scale with vLLM (including extended-context configurations via YaRN / RoPE scaling).
  • Diagnose failure modes: reward hacking, distribution collapse, KL blow-up, tool-selection errors vs state-transition errors, format drift.
  • Define and track evaluation metrics  pass@k, pass^k, trajectory-level scoring, rubric-based vs binary scoring  and own model-quality reporting against benchmarks.
  • Partner with annotation, eval, and client teams to translate data-quality signals into training improvements.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of hands-on ML engineering experience, with at least 1+ year specifically on LLM post-training.
  • Demonstrated production or research experience with at least three of: SFT, LoRA/QLoRA, DPO, PPO, GRPO, RLHF.
  • Strong PyTorch fundamentals; working familiarity with Hugging Face TRL, Accelerate, DeepSpeed or FSDP, and vLLM.
  • Experience designing reward signals or verifiers for RL training  not just running training scripts.
  • Solid grasp of tokenization, attention, chat templates, tool-calling formats (OpenAI/Anthropic-style), and common failure modes in agent training.
  • Comfort with Python, distributed training, GPU profiling, and reading research papers and turning them into working code.

Strongly Preferred:


  • Experience training tool-use or agentic models (function calling, multi-step tool selection, planner-executor patterns).
  • Experience with synthetic data generation pipelines and rejection sampling.
  • Familiarity with MCP, LangChain/LangGraph, or similar agent frameworks.
  • Exposure to evals at scale: building harnesses, designing rubrics, dealing with judge variance and reward hacking.
  • Cloud/infra: RunPod, AWS, GCP; container workflows; long-context inference tuning.


Perks of Freelancing With Turing

  • Work in a fully remote environment.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects with leading LLM companies.

Offer Details

  • Commitments Required: 40 hours per week with overlap of 4 hours with PST. 
  • Engagement Type: Contractor assignment (no medical/paid leave)
  • Duration of contract : 2 months; [expected start date is next week]
  • Location: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Brazil

Evaluation Process

  • 2 rounds of Technical Interview (90 mins)
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