PhD Biology / Life Sciences Expert at Turing

PhD Biology / Life Sciences Expert | Remote | Contractor, up to 5 weeks

About the role

Turing is partnering with a leading AI research lab to bring domain experts directly into frontier AI development. PhD-level scientists in biology and the life sciences will work alongside the lab's research teams, applying deep scientific expertise to advance and evaluate cutting-edge AI models.

What the work involves

• Design challenging, research-grade scientific problems and tasks that test the limits of frontier AI models and agents.
• Evaluate model and agent outputs for scientific accuracy, rigor, and reasoning quality, and give clear, structured feedback.
• Help build and refine benchmarks and datasets in your area of expertise.
• Identify where models fail on expert-level biology and explain why.
• Collaborate with researchers to translate scientific workflows into tasks AI systems can be trained and tested on.
• Adapt to evolving project scopes as research priorities shift.

Requirements

• PhD in Biology or a Life Sciences field (e.g., molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, neuroscience, immunology, microbiology, bioinformatics/computational biology, or related).
• Hands-on research experience, ideally with peer-reviewed publications.
• Ability to create problems that are genuinely difficult, beyond textbook-level knowledge.
• Excellent written English and the ability to explain complex scientific reasoning clearly.
• Strong attention to detail and comfort working independently in a remote setting.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python, R, or command-line tools for scientific computing or data analysis.
• Background in computational biology, bioinformatics pipelines, or lab-to-data workflows.
• Prior experience with AI training, evaluation, data annotation, or benchmark creation.
• Postdoctoral or industry R&D experience.

Schedule and terms

• 40 hours per week, with 8 hours of overlap with PST.
• Engagement type: Contractor.
• Engagement length: up to 5 weeks.
• Pay rate: not specified.

Hiring process

• Application and profile review.
• AI interview (mandatory).