Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

About the Position

Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate high-quality datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and frontier research benchmarks that improve model capabilities in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and advanced STEM reasoning. In software engineering, Turing is the largest and longest-running data provider in the category. Turing also works with Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail, automotive, and CPG to build and deploy end-to-end agentic AI systems inside mission-critical workflows. By operating on both sides, Turing closes the loop between frontier research and enterprise deployment, turning real-world deployment signals into better data, evaluations, and more capable models. Learn more at www.turing.com.

About the Role

We are looking for a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer to join our Enterprise AI team in Hyderabad, India. This role is a hybrid position, requiring 3 days per week in the office.

Responsibilities

As a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, you will:

• Find the Problem Worth Solving: Work directly with customers to navigate ambiguity, uncover high-value opportunities, challenge assumptions, and translate complex business needs into clear technical direction.
• Build Beyond the Frontier: Architect and build production AI systems, from multi-agent workflows, orchestration, tool use, context engineering, memory and state, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to the APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and distributed systems that make them reliable at scale.
• Own the Outcome: Lead solutions from discovery through deployment and measurable impact while staying hands-on and owning evaluation, observability, security, reliability, latency, scalability, and cost.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of building and operating sophisticated software systems.
• Skills: Expertise in Python, backend systems, APIs, databases, distributed systems, system design, cloud infrastructure, orchestration, tool use, context engineering, memory and state, retrieval, multistep workflows, embeddings, vector and hybrid search, reranking, evaluation, and diagnosing retrieval quality.
• Ownership: A track record of taking complex systems from architecture through deployment and scale.
• Leadership: Exceptional customer and technical leadership skills.
• Communication: Client-ready communication skills.

Values

• Client First: We put our clients at the center of everything we do.
• Start-Up Speed: We move fast, stay agile, and favor action.
• AI Forward: We help our clients build the future of AI and implement it in our own roles and workflow.

We Offer

• Work at the frontier of AI, helping the world’s leading AI labs improve their most advanced models.
• Contribute to leading-edge AI research and showcase your work at top conferences.
• Bring frontier AI innovation to the enterprise.
• Collaborate with and learn from exceptional colleagues with deep AI experience.
• Move at the pace of AI innovation, with the speed, ownership, and impact of a startup.

About the Company

Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and celebrate authenticity.

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This role is based in Hyderabad and requires working from the office three days per week. Are you currently based in Hyderabad? We are only considering candidates currently based in Hyderabad. Relocation assistance is not available.

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