SWE Bench – Data Engineer/Scientist at Turing

SWE Bench Data Engineer / Data Scientist | Contractor | Remote (India, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria & more)

Turing is seeking experienced Data Engineers and Data Scientists to contribute to benchmark-driven AI evaluation projects. You'll work on real-world data pipelines and data science workflows that help measure and improve the performance of cutting-edge AI systems. This is a part-time contractor role requiring a minimum of 20 hours per week with 4 hours of PST overlap.

About Turing

Based in San Francisco, Turing is the world's leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI. Turing specializes in high-quality data, advanced training pipelines, and top-tier AI research across coding, reasoning, STEM, multilinguality, multimodality, and agents.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with structured and unstructured datasets to support SWE Bench-style evaluation tasks.
• Design, build, and validate data pipelines for benchmarking and evaluation workflows.
• Perform data processing, feature preparation, and validation for data science use cases.
• Write, run, and modify Python code to process data and support experiments locally.
• Evaluate data quality, transformations, and outputs for correctness and reproducibility.
• Create clean, well-documented, and reusable data workflows suitable for benchmarking.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain high standards of quality and maintainability.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to design challenging real-world data tasks for AI evaluation.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, Data Scientist, or data-focused Software Engineer.
• Strong proficiency in Python for data engineering and data science workflows.
• Solid experience with data processing, analysis, and model-related workflows.
• Strong understanding of machine learning and data science fundamentals.
• Experience working with both structured and unstructured data.
• Ability to navigate and modify complex, real-world codebases.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.

Engagement Details

• Type: Contractor (no medical/paid leave)
• Duration: 3 months (adjustable based on engagement)
• Commitment: Minimum 20 hrs/week with 4 hrs daily PST overlap
• Eligible Locations: India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana, Bangladesh, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico

Evaluation Process

• Technical interview with a live coding challenge (60 minutes)