Software Engineer Pod Lead

Remote • Contract • via Turing

About this role

• 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 staffing a frontier AI data initiative that requires strong software engineers to build the infrastructure and training data used to develop and evaluate AI agents. 

  The work spans two closely related tracks: Connectors and Tasks. Candidates may specialize in one track, but the strongest profiles are generalist backend engineers who can contribute across both. 

  What you'll do:

  • Build Python backend applications that faithfully replicate real-world SaaS tools such as Slack, Linear, Jira, Notion, Gmail, wikis, and other enterprise applications.

  • Develop realistic digital-work environments where AI agents can interact with tools, data, and workflows.

  • Mine real-world data, tools, and workflows to understand how knowledge work is performed across enterprise applications.

  • Author realistic, long-horizon agent tasks that require multi-step reasoning, tool usage, and interaction with connector environments.

  • Write clear evaluation rubrics that precisely define correct, complete, and high-quality task completion.

  • Validate tasks end-to-end for quality, realism, correctness, and achievability through rigorous QA.

  • Identify ambiguity, edge cases, grading gaps, and unrealistic assumptions before tasks ship.

  • Reproduce and debug failures across tasks and connector environments and provide actionable feedback to other engineers.

  • Use AI coding tools extensively throughout development, debugging, testing, and QA workflows.

  What we're looking for:

  • Strong backend software engineering experience, primarily in Python.

  • Experience building, testing, debugging, and maintaining backend applications.

  • Working knowledge of GCP, Docker, virtual machines, and Harbor.

  • Strong engineering judgment and a high bar for correctness, with the ability to identify edge cases and ambiguous requirements.

  • Ability to understand real-world workflows and translate them into precise technical implementations, tasks, and evaluation criteria.

  • Excellent written communication skills, particularly for technical documentation, QA feedback, and rubric writing.

  • High daily proficiency with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar tools, this is a hard requirement.

  • Ability to work independently across unfamiliar codebases, tools, and technical environments.

  Nice to have:

  • Experience building or evaluating AI agents, LLM applications, or agentic systems.

  • Experience developing backend integrations or applications that replicate or interact with SaaS products.

  • Familiarity with enterprise SaaS tools such as Slack, Linear, Jira, Notion, Gmail, or wikis at an API or data-model level.

  • Experience with evaluation design, QA, rubric development, or AI training-data generation.

  • Experience working with complex multi-step workflows involving tool/function calling.

  • Ability to contribute across both Connectors and Tasks, rather than specializing exclusively in one track.

  Offer Details:

  • Commitments Required: At least 6 hours per day and minimum 40 hours per week with overlap of 6 hours with PST. 

  • Employment type  : Contractor assignment (no medical/paid leave)

  • Duration of contract : 5 week [expected start date is next week]

  • Location : India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana, Bangladesh, Turkey, Mexico

Key skills

• Python
• SaaS

Details

• Pay: Shared during the application process
• Company: Turing
• Location: Remote
• Eligible locations: India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana and 3 more
• Platform: Turing