Remote opportunity for PhD-level biologists to evaluate AI model responses, create expert biological prompts, and contribute to AI safety initiatives involving life-science reasoning, biosecurity awareness, and scientific accuracy.
Biology Specialist
Remote (Global)
June 14, 2026
Job description
About the Role
Turing is seeking a Biology Specialist (Biological Reasoning & Discovery Engineer) to help evaluate and improve the scientific reasoning capabilities of advanced AI systems.
In this role, you will create biology-focused reasoning datasets that challenge Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze scientific data, identify biological patterns, infer mechanisms, estimate parameters, and predict outcomes in living systems.
The position combines biological expertise, scientific reasoning, data interpretation, and evaluation design to help build more capable AI systems for scientific applications.
Key Responsibilities
Design Biology Reasoning Tasks
- Create biology-centered reasoning scenarios using experimental datasets, observational studies, and simulated biological systems
- Develop tasks requiring pattern recognition, hypothesis generation, parameter estimation, and predictive reasoning
Build Scientific Evaluation Problems
- Create evaluation challenges across Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cellular Processes, Physiology, Ecology, and Population Dynamics
- Design biological consistency and scientific reasoning checks
Develop Ground Truth Solutions
- Create deterministic answers and reference solutions
- Write detailed scientific explanations
- Build comprehensive scoring rubrics for model evaluation
Support AI Research
- Collaborate with reviewers and AI engineers
- Ensure datasets are scientifically accurate, logically consistent, reproducible, and well documented
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in Biology, Life Sciences Research, Bioinformatics, Scientific Analysis, or related analytical disciplines
- Strong understanding of biological systems, scientific methodology, experimental design, and quantitative analysis
- Expertise in one or more of: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Physiology, Biological Modeling, Data Interpretation
- Strong scientific writing and documentation skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and logical reasoning
Work Expectations
- Minimum overlap of 4 hours with PST time zone
- Fully remote work environment
- Contractor engagement
- Duration of approximately 8 weeks
Benefits
- Fully remote work
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects
- Collaboration with leading LLM companies
- Potential contract extension based on performance and project needs
About Turing
Turing is a leading AI research accelerator that supports frontier AI laboratories and global enterprises through advanced training data, research expertise, and AI system development.
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