Opportunity at
TuringStrategic Project Lead, Software Engineering
Turing is hiring a Strategic Project Lead for software engineering data programmes. The listing is a full-time, on-site position in the United States. The lead owns…
Career Tools
About This Role
Turing is hiring a Strategic Project Lead for software engineering data programmes. The listing is a full-time, on-site position in the United States. The lead owns the production machinery behind these programmes, converting demanding research requirements into dependable output on quality, throughput, contributor performance, schedules and spend. Programmes may cover supervised coding demonstrations, multi-file repository tasks, agent trajectories, benchmarks, RL environments, agent trajectories, code review and scored rubric evaluations. Coordinating…
Job Description
Turing is hiring a Strategic Project Lead for software engineering data programmes. The listing is a full-time, on-site position in the United States. The lead owns the production machinery behind these programmes, converting demanding research requirements into dependable output on quality, throughput, contributor performance, schedules and spend.
Programmes may cover supervised coding demonstrations, multi-file repository tasks, agent trajectories, benchmarks, RL environments, agent trajectories, code review and scored rubric evaluations. Coordinating hundreds of remote engineers is typical, and direction can change quickly when research priorities shift. The posting describes operations leadership with a real technical bar. The lead must read code, interpret tests, judge quality metrics, and push back on any workflow or rubric that fails to deliver the intended signal. Acting as principal engineer on every programme is not required. The core task is building a system that repeatedly produces strong technical work.
The lead is the main contact for researchers and programme managers at frontier AI labs, giving clear reporting and anticipating needs before they are raised. Internally, the lead runs quality control across annotation, traces errors to their causes, drives process changes that speed work and cut cost, and writes documentation that outlasts any single project.
Candidates should bring backgrounds in advisory work, finance, early-stage businesses or other high-pressure operations, and should have managed complex projects with many stakeholders. Analytical and communication strength is needed to spot bottlenecks, design measurement plans, and explain fixes to exacting clients in plain terms. Comfort with high-profile customers and an appetite for detailed process work at scale are required. Listed pay is a base of $120,000 to $200,000 with total target compensation of $195,000 to $300,000 at the programme lead level, and a base of $150,000 to $280,000 with total target compensation of $300,000 to $500,000 at the senior level, including salary, variable pay and equity.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery and quality across each programme, from scope to handover
- Build pipelines from customer specification through to final output
- Find bottlenecks and fix them by adjusting sequencing, instructions, incentives and review capacity
- Hold daily coordination meetings to head off problems
- Act as lead contact for researchers and programme managers at AI labs
- Recruit, onboard, train and manage subject experts working in distributed workspaces
- Design incentive and performance systems for large contributor groups
- Examine datasets for patterns, anomalies and systematic errors, and resolve root causes
- Write playbooks covering onboarding, quality benchmarks and escalation
Requirements
- Track record leading complex projects with many stakeholders
- Analytical and communication skill for production and client work
- Comfort managing demanding, high-profile clients
- Appetite for process optimisation at scale
- Ability to read code, interpret tests and push back on a flawed workflow or rubric
Core Skills
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers are based only on the employer’s listing; where it doesn’t say, neither do we.
Is this role remote?
No. The listing is marked on-site in the United States.
What is the pay?
The posting lists base salary of $120,000 to $200,000 and total target compensation of $195,000 to $300,000 at the programme lead level. At the senior level it lists base of $150,000 to $280,000 and total target compensation of $300,000 to $500,000.
How do I apply?
The posting asks candidates to send a CV and a brief write-up of a project they ran from start to finish to recruiting@turing.com.
What background is expected?
The posting asks for experience in advisory work, finance, startups or other high-pressure operations environments, with strong analytical and communication skills.
Sample Interview Questions
AI-generated questions tailored to this specific role — a preview of the full practice set.