LLM Java Developer

Engineering & Software • Independent Contractor • Remote • via Turing

Develop and maintain Java code for training and optimizing AI models.

About Turing:

Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.

Turing helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies.

Role Overview:

We are actively seeking talented developers proficient Java Engineer. The engineer will be working  together on the definition, design, and delivery of new features with cross-functional teams. The company is developing the next generation of dialog agents, which will have a wide range of uses in areas including education, entertainment, and general question-answering. This is an exciting opportunity for candidates who are keen to learn in a fast-paced setting.

What does day-to-day look like:

• Design, develop, and maintain efficient, high-quality code to train and optimize AI models.
• Conduct evaluations (Evals) to benchmark model performance and analyze results for continuous improvement.
• Evaluate and rank AI model responses to user queries across diverse domains, ensuring alignment with predefined criteria.
• Develop comprehensive explanations and rationales for evaluations, showcasing excellent reasoning and technical expertise.
• Lead efforts in Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), including creating and maintaining high-quality, task-specific datasets.
• Collaborate with researchers and annotators to execute Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) and refine reward models.
• Design innovative evaluation strategies and processes to improve the model's alignment with user needs and ethical guidelines.
• Create and refine optimal responses to improve AI performance, emphasizing clarity, relevance, and technical accuracy.
• Conduct thorough peer reviews of code and documentation, providing constructive feedback and identifying areas for improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve model performance and contribute to product enhancements.
• Continuously explore and integrate new tools, techniques, and methodologies to enhance AI training processes.
  
  
  Required Skills:
• Train LLM models with high-quality, stable, and scalable back-end components using the newest coding best practices in a variety of languages and frameworks.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure that the standards for code quality are met
• Demonstrate your proficiency with your language of choice, while covering all bases
• Provide clear, clean, well-organized, correct, and clearly annotated/classifiable code in the responses
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrable experience with developing web apps using modular development and scalable architectures as well as a strong focus on code readability and security/stability (i.e. testing)
• Proficiency with Java's syntax and conventions
• Nice to have some prior software Quality Assurance and Test Planning experience
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills

Perks of Freelancing With Turing:

• Work in a fully remote environment.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects with leading LLM companies.

Offer Details:

• Commitments Required: at least 4 hours per day and minimum 20 hours per week with overlap of 4 hours with PST. (We have 3 options of time commitment: 20 hrs/week, 30 hrs/week or 40 hrs/week)
• Engagement  type  : Contractor assignment (no medical/paid leave)
• Duration of contract : 1 month; [expected start date is next week]

Evaluation Process (approximately 75 mins) :

• Two rounds of interviews (60 min technical + 15 min cultural &, offer discussion)

Details

• Platform: Turing (work.turing.com)
• Location: Remote
• Skills: Java

Apply directly through Turing using the link below. Turing matches vetted experts to frontier AI labs, with fast onboarding and remote flexibility.