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Editor & Technical Writing Expert at Turing
posted 3 months agoEditor & Technical Writing Expert | Contractor | Remote (Europe) | 9-Week Engagement
Turing is seeking a skilled Technical Writing & Editing Expert to contribute to a frontier AI data initiative. In this role, you will design, evaluate, and refine realistic tasks that improve the reliability and usefulness of frontier AI agents within digital-corporate environments — including documentation platforms, API specs, developer portals, style guides, and Git repositories.
About Turing
Turing is one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. Turing partners with leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities and builds real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical challenges for enterprises.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and document representative Technical Writing and Editing workflows suitable for long-horizon AI task development.
- Author realistic task scenarios involving technical documentation drafting, structural editing, style guide compliance, API spec formatting, and user guide creation.
- Produce expert tasks and gold-standard solutions that meet the project's quality bar, incorporating calibration feedback from senior reviewers.
- Define task context, required source inputs, expected documentation deliverables, and evaluation criteria.
- Prepare reference artifacts, revised drafts, style guidelines, and detailed rubrics to assess task accuracy and editorial clarity.
- Validate that assigned tasks can be completed using available tools and source materials without unsupported external assumptions.
- Review team members' task implementations and provide actionable feedback on technical realism and rubric coverage.
Requirements
- 3–8 years of hands-on experience as a Technical Writer, Editor, Content Strategist, or related documentation role.
- Proficiency with modern documentation tools such as Markdown, Docs-as-Code, Git, Confluence, Notion, MadCap Flare, or static site generators.
- Proven track record producing user guides, API documentation, release notes, SOPs, knowledge base articles, and copyediting reviews.
- Strong ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, well-structured documentation.
- Experience writing high-quality prompts, technical scenarios, and structured evaluation rubrics for AI training tasks is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with editorial style guides such as the Microsoft Manual of Style or Google Developer Documentation Style Guide is a plus.
Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in any field.
- Experience in AI evaluation, data annotation, content review, or quality assurance is preferred but not required.
Engagement Details
- Type: Contractor
- Duration: 9 weeks
- Commitment: At least 4 hours/day, up to 40 hours/week, with 4 hours of overlap with PST
Evaluation Process
Shortlisted candidates will receive a Job Interest Form. Final selected candidates will be contacted with next steps and onboarding requirements.