Physics Specialist at Turing

Physics Specialist | Contractor | Worldwide Remote

Turing is seeking a skilled Physics Specialist to design and develop high-quality scientific reasoning datasets that evaluate and enhance the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). This is an 8-week remote contractor engagement with a leading AI research accelerator based in San Francisco, CA.

About Turing

Turing is the world's leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems. Turing helps accelerate frontier research through high-quality data, advanced training pipelines, and top-tier AI researchers specializing in coding, reasoning, STEM, multilinguality, multimodality, and agents.

Role Overview

As a Scientific Reasoning & Discovery Engineer, you will create rigorous, reproducible evaluation tasks that challenge LLMs to analyze experimental data, identify patterns, infer governing laws, estimate parameters, and predict outcomes. Your work will directly contribute to improving the scientific reasoning capabilities of cutting-edge AI models.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Design scientific reasoning scenarios using experimental, observational, or simulated datasets.
• Author multi-step tasks requiring data analysis, pattern recognition, parameter estimation, and predictive reasoning.
• Develop evaluation problems focused on law discovery, model selection, consistency checking, and hypothesis validation.
• Create reference solutions, deterministic answers, and detailed scoring rubrics for model assessment.
• Collaborate with reviewers and LLM engineers to ensure scientific accuracy, clarity, and reproducibility across datasets.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of demonstrated experience in the physics domain.
• Strong knowledge of scientific reasoning, quantitative modeling, data analysis, and experimental methodologies.
• Expertise in mathematical modeling, parameter estimation, dimensional analysis, and simulation-based problem solving.
• Ability to communicate complex scientific concepts and solutions clearly through structured documentation.
• Strong attention to logical consistency, ambiguity control, and reproducible outcomes.

Engagement Details

• Type: Contractor/Freelancer (no medical or paid leave benefits)
• Duration: 8 weeks
• Overlap Required: 4 hours with PST

Perks

• Fully remote work environment.
• Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge AI projects with leading LLM companies.
• Potential for contract extension based on performance and project needs.