Strategic Project Lead, Software Engineering

Turing · New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States

onsitefull-time6-10 years

posted 18 Aug

<div class="content-intro"><h1>About Turing</h1> Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is the world’s leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises looking to deploy advanced AI systems. Turing accelerates frontier research with high-quality data, specialized talent, and training pipelines that advance thinking, reasoning, coding, multimodality, and STEM. For enterprises, Turing builds proprietary intelligence systems that integrate AI into mission-critical workflows, unlock transformative outcomes, and drive lasting competitive advantage. Recognized by Forbes, The Information, and Fast Company among the world’s top innovators, Turing’s leadership team includes AI technologists from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, McKinsey, Bain, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT. Learn more at<a class="c-link c-link--underline" href="http://www.turing.com/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://www.turing.com" data-sk="tooltip_parent"> www.turing.com</a></div><h2>The Role</h2> 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. <h2>What You’ll Do</h2> 1) Operational execution — own end-to-end delivery on every project you run <ul> <li>Design and manage data pipelines from customer specification to final delivery, with full accountability for scope, timeline, and quality.</li> <li>Diagnose bottlenecks in real time — re-sequence workflows, refine instructions, create incentive systems, and scale review processes to hit throughput targets.</li> <li>Run daily “war room” syncs to stay ahead of issues before they reach the customer.</li> </ul> 2) Customer relationships — be the face of Turing to the world’s leading AI labs <ul> <li>Act as the primary point of contact for researchers and program managers at frontier AI labs.</li> <li>Deliver clear, consistent reporting and proactively anticipate client needs before they ask.</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> 3) Large-scale coordination — orchestrate the work of 100–1,000+ contributors <ul> <li>Source, vet, onboard, train, and performance-manage domain experts across distributed workspaces.</li> <li>Maintain high execution standards at every stage of production, from annotation through review through delivery.</li> <li>Design motivation and performance systems — including gamification — that keep large contributor pools engaged and output high.</li> </ul> 4) Quality ownership — ensure world-class data integrity on every project <ul> <li>Own quality control across the annotat