LLM Expert - Chemistry at Turing

LLM Expert – Chemistry | Full-Time Contract (40hrs/week) | Remote | 24-Week Engagement

Turing is seeking a highly skilled Chemistry LLM Expert to support the development, evaluation, and optimization of large language models (LLMs) for domain-specific scientific applications. This is an exciting opportunity to sit at the intersection of advanced chemistry and cutting-edge AI, helping shape the next generation of intelligent systems.

About Turing:

Turing's mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing partners with frontier AI labs to generate high-quality data, evaluations, and reinforcement learning environments that improve model capabilities in coding, reasoning, tool use, and multimodality. Turing also works with Fortune 500 enterprises across Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Retail, Automotive, and CPG to build and deploy end-to-end agentic AI systems inside mission-critical workflows.

What You'll Do:

• Develop chemistry-focused datasets, benchmarks, and problem sets for LLM evaluation.
• Create reference answers, grading rubrics, and automated assessment frameworks.
• Evaluate AI-generated responses for scientific accuracy, reasoning quality, and calculation correctness.
• Build Python-based tools, workflows, and evaluation pipelines using APIs and structured data.
• Identify model weaknesses and provide actionable recommendations to improve performance.
• Collaborate with AI researchers and engineers to enhance domain-specific AI capabilities.

Requirements:

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field.
• Strong expertise in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, or related scientific disciplines.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with scientific computing or data analysis tools.
• Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, AI evaluation, or generative AI technologies.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess technical accuracy and scientific reasoning.
• Excellent written communication and technical documentation skills.

Contract Details:

• Duration: 24 weeks
• Hours: Full-time, 40 hours/week
• Overlap Required: 4 hours PST overlap daily