Senior Backend Engineer (Python/FastAPI) at Turing

Senior Backend Engineer (Python/FastAPI) | AI Evaluation | US-Based Remote Contractor

Join Turing — the world's leading AI research accelerator — as a Senior Backend Engineer focused on AI model evaluation. In this contractor role, you'll help shape the future of large language models by curating high-quality datasets, evaluating AI-generated code, and building verification systems for production-grade software. Flexible hours (10–40 hrs/week), fully remote within the US.

About Turing

Based in San Francisco, Turing partners with frontier AI labs and global enterprises to accelerate AI research and deploy reliable, high-impact AI systems. Our team specializes in software engineering, logical reasoning, STEM, multilinguality, multimodality, and AI agents.

Role Overview

As a Software Engineering Evaluator, you will collaborate with researchers to create cutting-edge training and benchmarking datasets for large language models. Your work will directly influence the quality and reliability of AI-generated code across multiple languages and domains.

Key Responsibilities

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

Required Skills

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in systems programming, infrastructure, or backend development using Python, C/C++, Rust, or 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

Application Process

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