LLM Java Developer

LLM Java Developer

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)

About Turing

Turing is the world's leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems. They connect elite AI professionals with frontier model training projects, offering competitive compensation for domain expertise across coding, STEM, creative writing, and more.

How To Apply

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