Senior Backend Engineer (Python/FastAPI) at Turing

Senior Backend Engineer (Python/FastAPI) – AI Evaluation | Contractor | Remote (US Only)

Join Turing, the world's leading AI research accelerator based in San Francisco, as a Senior Backend Engineer focused on AI model evaluation. In this flexible contractor role, you'll help shape the future of large language models by curating high-quality datasets, evaluating AI-generated code, and collaborating with top researchers and engineers.

About Turing

Turing partners with frontier AI labs and global enterprises to accelerate AI research and deploy advanced AI systems. Our team specializes in software engineering, logical reasoning, STEM, multilinguality, multimodality, and agents — delivering measurable, lasting impact for our clients.

What You'll Do

• Curate code examples, build solutions, and correct code across Python, C/C++, Rust, Go, Java, and JavaScript (including ReactJS).
• Evaluate and refine AI-generated code with a focus on systems-level correctness, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Build agents to verify the quality of systems-level and infrastructure code, and identify error patterns.
• Design automated verification mechanisms for software engineering tasks.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to benchmark and improve AI-driven coding solutions.
• Analyze and hypothesize on software engineering lifecycle stages — from prototyping and architecture to production, monitoring, and maintenance.

Required Skills

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in systems programming, infrastructure, or backend development (Python, C/C++, Rust, Go).
• Proven experience building and deploying scalable, production-grade software.
• Deep understanding of software architecture, design patterns, debugging, and code quality assessment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for structured evaluation rationales.

Engagement Details

• Type: Contractor (no medical/paid leave benefits)
• Commitment: Flexible — minimum 10 hrs/week, up to 40 hrs/week
• Duration: 1 month, with potential extensions based on performance
• Location: Must be based in the United States

Evaluation Process

The application takes approximately 15–30 minutes and includes an AI video interview. We look forward to reviewing your application!