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Job responsibilities

  • Lead junior data scientists and ML engineers to ensure successful completion of the projects
  • Implement data mining and acquisition processes
  • Ensure the maintenance of data quality and integrity
  • Work with huge data sets and establish scalable and accurate analytics systems
  • Analyze and visualize data to derive meaningful insights and identify business opportunities
  • Keep up to date with developments in data science technologies
  • Implement advanced data science and analytics solutions across the organization

Minimum requirements

  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Machine Learning (or equivalent experience)
  • At least 5+ years of experience with data science and analytics (rare exceptions for highly skilled developers)
  • Experience with NLP and ML libraries such as OpenCV, TensorFlow, etc.
  • In-depth understanding of R or Python programming language
  • Proficiency in SQL server, NoSQL technologies, and data visualization tools such as Tableau
  • Working knowledge of deep learning algorithms
  • Experience working with large datasets and unstructured data
  • Fluent in English to communicate effectively
  • Ability to work full-time (40 hours/week) with a 4 hour overlap with US time zones

Preferred skills

  • Knowledge of cleaning and manipulating data
  • Strong grasp on data structures, algorithms, and statistics
  • Experience working with Java, C++, or related languages
  • Previous experience in handling CI/CD tools
  • Experience in working with Hadoop framework
  • Strong leadership and project management skills

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How to Become a Senior Data Scientist?

Senior data scientists use data to help companies expand in the right direction. Given the scope of the project, senior data scientists oversee and coordinate the efforts of junior personnel as they lead numerous data-driven initiatives.

Data scientists are analytic specialists who detect patterns and handle data using their understanding of technology and social science. To solve corporate problems, they draw on industry knowledge, contextual awareness, and critiques of current assumptions.

What is the scope of Data Science?

Data science is an interdisciplinary field that brings together computer science, computational mathematics, statistics, and management. Data analysis and visualization are required to acquire useful insights from the data. Machine learning algorithms are used to create prediction models that turn raw data into useful information.

  • Data Scientist: A data scientist has experience in a wide range of fields. In accordance with the business objectives, the data scientist might define the issue description and project objectives. They discover patterns and trends and create forecasts using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data. A thorough foundation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and data engineering is required.
  • Senior Data Scientist: The Senior Data Scientist position offers a high-impact potential to influence decision-making and customer possibilities by constantly investigating, finding, and sharing actionable ideas with the Leadership team. To deliver business value, a senior data scientist will collaborate with people from various functions and teams. A senior data scientist also plays a role in shaping the Data Science Team by helping to hire and mentor less experienced individuals.

What are the roles and responsibilities of Senior Data scientists?

As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll have the opportunity to develop advanced statistical models, machine learning algorithms, and computational algorithms based on business initiatives to drive data-derived insights across a wide range of divisions. The senior data scientist role involves supporting project goals, directing the collection of data, the assessment of data veracity, and synthesis of data into massive analytics datasets.
You will be responsible to find trends, patterns, and contradictions in data, use big data analytics and advanced data science techniques. Also, a senior data scientist determines what further data is required to back up your findings. Create statistical models and machine learning algorithms and train them.

Use your knowledge of semantics, natural language processing, and comprehension where it's needed.

  • The responsibilities of a Senior Data Scientist include:
  • There are open-ended industrial inquiries and undirected research for tackling corporate difficulties.
  • It is possible to extract large amounts of structured and unstructured data. They query structured data from relational databases using computer languages like SQL. Unstructured data is collected using web scraping, APIs, and questionnaires.
  • Use modern analytical tools, machine learning, and statistical methodologies to prepare data for predictive and prescriptive modeling.
  • To prepare the data for preprocessing and modeling, thoroughly clean it to remove any extraneous information.
  • EDA is used to figure out how to deal with missing data and look for trends and opportunities.
  • Creating software to automate boring processes and developing novel solutions to handle challenges
  • Excellent data visualizations and reports should be used to communicate predictions and results to management and IT teams.
  • Modify current processes and tactics in a cost-effective manner.

How to become a Senior Data scientist?

To get hired as a senior data scientist, you'll need a few years of experience as a data scientist, data analyst, or data engineer. Along with that, at least a bachelor's degree in data science or a computer science-related discipline will be required.

If you are a beginner then a data science job normally requires a master's degree. Degrees can give your résumé structure, internships, networking opportunities, and academic credentials. If you hold a bachelor's degree in a subject other than your intended field, you may need to concentrate on learning job-related skills through short-term specialized courses or boot camps.

The Senior Data Scientist has worked as a Junior Data Scientist, Software Engineer, or has a Ph.D. in their field. He has 3–5 years of relevant expertise, produces reusable code, and creates cloud-based data pipelines that are durable.

Senior Data Scientists should be capable of framing Data Science issues. Candidates with prior Data Science experience have a lot to offer. Hiring managers also look at how well they can write production code.

Senior Data Scientists are preferred by employers because they give exceptional value for a reasonable salary. They have greater experience than Junior Data Scientists, therefore they avoid costly rookie errors. They're also less expensive than Principal Data Scientists, but they're still expected to create production-ready Data Science models.

Expertise in the required skills to become a senior data scientist like:

  • Programming
  • Big Data Platforms
  • Data warehousing and structures
  • Cloud Tools
  • Machine Learning techniques
  • Software Engineering Skills
  • Data Mining, Cleaning, and Munging
  • Research
  • Data Visualization and Reporting
  • Risk Analysis
  • Statistical analysis and Math
  • Effective Communication

Senior Data scientists might focus on a certain industry or gain expertise in areas like artificial intelligence, machine learning, research, or database administration. A specialization is a smart approach to improving your tech stack and income potential while still exciting work.

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Skills required to become a Data scientist

When you are looking to becoming a Data Scientist, there are certain skills you’ll need to be proficient in irrespective of your role. They are:

1. Math and Statistics

Any competent Senior Data Scientist will have a strong mathematical and statistical foundation. A senior Data Scientist would be required by any firm, especially one that is data-driven, to understand numerous statistical approaches — such as maximum likelihood estimators, distributors, and statistical tests — in order to aid in making suggestions and choices. Calculus and linear algebra are both crucial since machine learning algorithms rely on them.

2. Analytics and Modeling

A Senior Data Scientist is required to be very knowledgeable in this sector because data is only as good as the people who analyze and model it. Based on a foundation of both critical thinking and communication, a Data Scientist should be able to study data, execute tests, and construct models to gain new insights and predict likely results.

3. Machine Learning Methods

While specialist knowledge in this topic isn't always required, some familiarity is expected. Machine learning skills such as decision trees, logistic regression, and other critical components will be sought after by future companies.

4. Programming

To move from the theoretical to the practical, a Senior Data Scientist needs to be an exceptional programmer. Most businesses will want you to be proficient in programming languages such as Python, R, and others. Object-oriented programming, basic syntax and functions, flow control statements, libraries, and documentation are all included in this category.

5. Data Visualization

Data visualization is a vital component of becoming a Data Scientist since it allows you to effectively communicate key messages and get support for suggested solutions. Understanding how to break down complex data into smaller, more digestible bits, as well as how to employ a variety of visual aids (charts, graphs, and more) is a skill that every Data Scientist will need in order to advance in their career. In this article Creating Data Visualizations with Tableau, you'll learn more about Tableau and why data visualization is so important.

6. Intellectual Curiosity

A strong desire to solve difficulties and uncover answers, particularly those that need some creative thinking, is at the heart of the data scientist profession. Because data is meaningless on its own, a great Data Scientist is motivated to learn more about what the data is telling them and how that information may be applied on a bigger scale.

7. Communication

Because data cannot talk unless it is processed, a successful Data Scientist must have excellent communication skills. Communication can make or break a project, whether it's conveying to your team the activities you want to take to get from point A to point B with the data or giving a presentation to company leadership.

8. Business Acumen

A Data Scientist must have some business knowledge in order to correctly use data in a way that is beneficial to their firm. You must have a thorough understanding of the company's core objectives and goals, as well as how they affect the work you do. You must also be able to create solutions that meet those goals in a cost-effective, easy-to-implement manner that ensures widespread adoption.

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How to get Data scientist jobs?

Turing provides significant remote Data scientist jobs to boost your existing senior Data scientist job. Working on complex new technological and business challenges can help you expand quickly. Join our global developer network to find long-term, full-time remote Data scientist jobs with better pay and advancement opportunities.

Why become a Data scientist at Turing?

How much does Turing pay their Data scientists?

Every Turing data scientist is free to work at their own pace. Turing, on the other hand, will propose a pay at which we are confident that we will be able to find you a successful and long-term job. Our recommendations are based on our research into market conditions and customer preferences.

Frequently Asked Questions

Turing is an AGI infrastructure company specializing in post-training large language models (LLMs) to enhance advanced reasoning, problem-solving, and cognitive tasks. Founded in 2018, Turing leverages the expertise of its globally distributed technical, business, and research experts to help Fortune 500 companies deploy customized AI solutions that transform operations and accelerate growth. As a leader in the AGI ecosystem, Turing partners with top AI labs and enterprises to deliver cutting-edge innovations in generative AI, making it a critical player in shaping the future of artificial intelligence.

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We, at Turing, hire remote developers for over 100 skills like React/Node, Python, Angular, Swift, React Native, Android, Java, Rails, Golang, PHP, Vue, among several others. We also hire engineers based on tech roles and seniority.

Communication is crucial for success while working with American clients. We prefer candidates with a B1 level of English i.e. those who have the necessary fluency to communicate without effort with our clients and native speakers.

Currently, we have openings only for the developers because of the volume of job demands from our clients. But in the future, we might expand to other roles too. Do check out our careers page periodically to see if we could offer a position that suits your skills and experience.

Our unique differentiation lies in the combination of our core business model and values. To advance AGI, Turing offers temporary contract opportunities. Most AI Consultant contracts last up to 3 months, with the possibility of monthly extensions—subject to your interest, availability, and client demand—up to a maximum of 10 continuous months. For our Turing Intelligence business, we provide full-time, long-term project engagements.

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Our mission is to make merchants successful through world class shipping. With our products and solutions, we level the playing field by providing our customers with best-in-class solutions that otherwise wouldn’t be available to them. Through our e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard. We provide our customers with the most competitive shipping rates, print labels, automated international documents, shipment tracking, facilitate the returns process and more.

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We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Carriers Capabilities Team! Businesses, partners, customers, and users worldwide rely on our integration to a global network of carriers to streamline their fulfillment workflow. You can look forward to expanding our Shipping Carrier Library for both domestic and international shipments. The Carrier Capabilities Team is responsible for developing new integrations with carriers, maintaining them, building infrastructure and maintaining current services. As a Senior Engineer, you will provide experience and oversight in technical definitions, and coding for your team.

 

Job Responsibilities:


  • Design, implement, test, and deploy software services with high SLAs that can handle millions of requests a day
  • Ensure scalability and maintainability through microservices adoption, decoupling of concerns from the data model, queuing of jobs, application layering and container-based software distribution.
  • Continue to build out and enhance our CI/CD pipeline for smooth and safe production releases via automated testing and verification.
  • Verify and ensure performance and correctness of systems in response time and throughput.
  • Architect systems and refactor existing systems for optimal performance and reuse
  • Participate in peer reviews, testing and in design reviews for new features, products, and systems
  • Collaborate with business teams and provide early input to new product ideas and functionality
  • Define, implement, and monitor operational metrics to ensure performance and quality.
  • Work with a sense of urgency and iterate quickly in an agile process.
  • Mentor more junior engineers on engineering best practices.
  • Exceptional problem solving skills: demonstrated ability to understand business challenges and translate those into technical solutions.
  • Being on team on-call rotation and able to respond quickly to system incidents


Job Requirements:


  • 7+ years of experience in software development
  • Coding experience in server-side programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, Ruby) as well as database languages (SQL) in production at scale
  • Experience consuming APIs (client) and processing millions of integrations per second
  • Experience working with server-side frameworks (e.g. Django, FastAPI, .NET, Spring, Rails, Phoenix)
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with all levels of the organization.
  • Past experience and success building and supporting scalable APIs, services, or applications
  • Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and familiarity with various design and architectural patterns.
  • Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. You are adept at communicating relevant information clearly and concisely.
  • Deep understanding of customer needs and passion for customer success.
  • Ability to look ahead to identify opportunities, foster a culture of innovation, and build for scale.
  • Exhibit core behaviors focused on craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and team success
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

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  • Experience with Integration Patterns Concepts like messaging, routing, translator.
  • Experience working with Enterprise Integration Frameworks (e.g. Apache Camel, Spring Integration) or Data Integration Framework (e.g. Prefect, Sprint Data Streams)
  • Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g. Temporal, Kestra, Prefect)
  • Experience using Python and/or Golang in production at scale
  • Interest and experience in performance tuning, concurrency, security, data pipelines, and web servers
  • Familiarity with microservices architectures
  • Experience integrating with APIs that use REST, SOAP, gRPC and other technologies
  • Experience with Django and/or FastAPI
  • Prior experience working or interacting with shipping and/or postal carriers
  • Experience with messaging systems such as NSQ, Kafka, SQS and Celery
  • Experience with DevOps tooling such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, New Relic, PagerDuty, etc
  • Experience with AWS/Cloud services such as EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Route 53, Cloud Formation, Cloudflare, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, etc.

Offer Details

  • Full-time Contractor (No benefits)
  • Remote only, full-time dedication (40 hours/week)
  • Required 5 hours overlap with EST (Eastern Standard Time)
  • Competitive compensation package.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and career development.
  • Dynamic and inclusive work environment focused on innovation and teamwork
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About Us

Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted software development. Our mission is to empower the next generation of AI systems to reason about and work with real-world software repositories. You’ll be working at the intersection of software engineering, open-source ecosystems, and frontier AI.

Role Overview — What Does a Typical Day Look Like?

You’ll work alongside top AI researchers and domain experts shaping foundational LLMs at leading AI labs to:

  • Design and solve high-quality engineering problems that push the limits of model reasoning—spanning undergraduate through PhD-level topics.
  • Analyze and evaluate model-generated solutions using a structured evaluation and ranking framework.
  • Identify conceptual gaps, edge cases, and model blind spots—helping define new benchmarks for engineering reasoning.
  • Contribute insights that shape model fine-tuning and frontier AI research

Required Skills & Experience

  • Strong academic background in Engineering disciplines (Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Civil, Biotechnology, Robotics, or related fields)
  • Open to talent at all education levels — UG, Master’s, and PhD
  • Deep problem-solving skills and a structured, analytical mindset.
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate with technical researchers.
  • Interest in LLMs and how they work is a plus!

Engagement Details

  • Commitment: Work as an expert gig worker with flexible engagement; minimum 10 hrs/week and up to 40 hrs/week (partial PST overlap required)
  • Duration: 1 month with potential extensions based on performance and fit
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