Strategic Project Lead - Code

India - Remote

About Turing

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 Position

You will own the production system behind Turing’s software-engineering data programs, turning complex research requirements into predictable delivery across quality, throughput, contributor performance, timelines, and cost.

These programs may involve supervised coding demonstrations, repository-level tasks, agentic trajectories, reinforcement-learning environments, benchmarks, code review, and rubric-based evaluations. They can require coordinating hundreds of distributed software engineers while responding quickly to changing research requirements.

This is an operations leadership role with a meaningful technical bar. You must be able to inspect code, understand tests, interrogate quality signals, and challenge a workflow or rubric when it is not producing the intended result. You will not be expected to act as the principal engineer for every program. Your primary responsibility is to build and operate the system that consistently produces high-quality technical work at scale.

Responsibilities

1. Operational Execution

   • Design and manage data pipelines from customer specification to final delivery, with full accountability for scope, timeline, and quality.
   • Scope and stand up coding workstreams across supervised demonstrations, agentic trajectories, RL environments, benchmark construction, and rubric-graded evaluation.
   • Diagnose bottlenecks in real time - re-sequence workflows, refine instructions, create incentive systems, and scale review processes to hit throughput targets.

2. Quality Ownership

   • Own quality control across the annotation lifecycle: set the bar, measure against it, and close the gap when it slips.
   • Analyze datasets to identify trends, anomalies, and systematic errors - then fix the root cause, not just the symptom.
   • Implement and continuously improve annotation, evaluation, and curation best practices.

3. Large-scale Coordination

   • Define the required contributor profile and partner with talent teams to source, assess, onboard, and ramp distributed software engineers.
   • Own contributor training, performance management, reviewer capacity, incentives, and corrective actions.
   • Build team-lead and reviewer structures that maintain execution standards across programs involving hundreds of contributors.

4. Customer Relationships

   • Act as the primary point of contact for researchers and program managers at frontier AI labs providing clear reporting on progress, quality, risks, and recovery actions.
   • Translate research intent into a task specification, and push back when a spec will not produce the signal the researcher actually wants.
   • Build the kind of long-term trust that converts a one-off project into a multi-year partnership - and identify expansion opportunities along the way.

5. Playbook Building

   • Use Python, SQL, or other appropriate tools to automate quality sampling, defect classification, throughput analysis, and weekly reporting.
   • Turn successful workflows into reusable playbooks, quality controls, evaluation assets, and contributor-management systems.
   • Share lessons and mentor other SPLs so each program improves the operating system for the next one.

Requirements

• Background in software engineering, technical program management, consulting, finance, startups, or other operationally intense environments, with a proven track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
• Strong analytical and communication abilities: you can spot a bottleneck in a noisy production environment, build a measurement plan, and communicate the fix to a demanding client in plain language.
• Customer-facing experience: comfortable working directly with high-profile clients, managing expectations, and building long-term relationships.
• Excited by gritty process optimization and large-scale execution - you thrive on making complex operations faster, cleaner, and more reliable.
• You can read and review code. You can follow a pull request in Python, TypeScript, Java, or Go, read a test suite, and judge a delivered task independently.
• Bonus: Experience with agentic evaluation harnesses, software engineering benchmarks, or RL environments; Experience managing large distributed contributor networks or marketplaces; Prior work at an AI data vendor or a frontier lab

Why Turing

• Work directly with the world’s leading AI labs at the cutting edge of post-training, evaluation, and agentic AI research.
• Real impact on the path to AGI: the data you deliver will directly influence how frontier models are trained and evaluated.
• High ownership and influence. You will shape how Turing delivers at scale, with direct visibility to senior leadership.
• Direct-to-research customers. You will spend your time partnering with the people building the future of AI, not coordinating with procurement.

Values

• We are client first: We put our clients at the center of everything we do, because their success is the ultimate measure of our value.
• We work at Start-Up Speed: We move fast, stay agile, and favor action because momentum is the foundation of perfection.
• We are AI forward: We help our clients build the future of AI and implement it in our own roles and workflow to amplify productivity.

Advantages of Joining Turing

• Work at the frontier of AI, helping the world’s leading AI labs improve their most advanced models by building expert datasets, RL environments, and first-of-a-kind benchmarks.
• Contribute to leading-edge AI research and showcase your work at top conferences such as ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS.
• Bring frontier AI innovation to the enterprise, applying lessons learned from leading AI labs to solve real-world business challenges.
• Collaborate with and learn from exceptional colleagues with deep AI experience from Google, Meta, Amazon, and other leading technology companies.
• Move at the pace of AI innovation, with the speed, ownership, and impact of a startup.

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, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

For applicants from the European Union, please review Turing's GDPR notice here.

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