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Pod Lead: Life Sciences & Medicine (Terminal Bench Science)

Worldwide

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About this role, in Turing's words

Turing is one of the world's leading AGI infrastructure companies, working with frontier AI labs to accelerate model development through high-quality training data, evaluations, and engineering talent.

What you'll do

Key Responsibilities

Review trainer tasks end to end, including task statements, biological and clinical datasets, reference files, pipelines, environments, reference solutions, and automated tests.
Verify that tasks reflect authentic research or clinical analysis workflows and require genuine multi-step scientific reasoning.
Check that tools, reference genomes, annotation versions, databases, and dependencies are pinned and that pipelines are reproducible.

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Validate scientific correctness, including genome builds, coordinate conventions, normalization, batch-effect handling, statistical assumptions, multiple-testing correction, units, dosing conventions, imaging orientation and spacing, and random-seed control.
Ensure graders verify substantive outputs such as variant calls, differential expression results, cluster assignments, binding or structural metrics, survival estimates, model performance, segmentation accuracy, and pharmacokinetic parameters rather than formatting.
Ensure tolerances account for legitimate stochastic and numerical variation without accepting incorrect analyses.
Ensure tasks cannot be gamed through hard-coded outputs, reading test files, or bypassing the intended analysis.
Confirm that all data is synthetic, public, appropriately licensed, and de-identified, with no protected health information or restricted-access data.
Screen tasks for biosafety and dual-use concerns.
Escalate content involving dangerous pathogens, toxins, or enhancement of harmful biological capabilities.
Provide clear, actionable written feedback and track revisions through closure.
Onboard and mentor trainers.
Allocate work, track quality and throughput, and escalate blockers.
Maintain pod documentation covering guidelines, recurring issues, and exemplary tasks.
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Required Qualifications

Ph.D., M.D., M.D.-Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced experience in a life science, biomedical, or medical field with a substantial computational component.
Strong programming skills in Python or R, plus Bash, with Linux and terminal proficiency.
Hands-on experience with bioinformatics pipelines, computational biology, biostatistics, medical imaging analysis, or clinical data analysis.
Strong understanding of experimental design, statistical inference, and reproducibility in biomedical research.
Proven experience reviewing code, analyses, manuscripts, or research outputs.
Experience mentoring or leading small technical or research teams.
Excellent written communication skills for providing precise, constructive feedback.

Preferred Qualifications

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Familiarity with tools such as samtools, bcftools, GATK, BWA, STAR, Salmon, DESeq2, edgeR, Seurat, Scanpy, Biopython, Bioconductor, Nextflow, or Snakemake.
Familiarity with RDKit, OpenMM, GROMACS, AutoDock Vina, PyMOL, or Biopython structure tools.
Familiarity with medical imaging and clinical tools such as pydicom, nibabel, SimpleITK, MONAI, FSL, lifelines, statsmodels, or FHIR data formats.
Familiarity with Docker, Conda, Git, CI systems, automated testing, and HPC environments.
Experience designing benchmarks, analysis challenges, or computational evaluations.

Bonus PointsPreferred

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Experience evaluating AI coding or terminal agents.
Experience with data governance, IRB processes, or biosafety review.
Industry experience in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or health technology.
Publications or open-source contributions in computational biology, bioinformatics, or biomedical informatics.
Prior experience in AI training or evaluation programs.

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Weekly hours: At least 40 hrs/week
Eligibility: Worldwide
Posted: 16 Oct 2026

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JOB POSTING START
Title: Pod Lead: Life Sciences & Medicine (Terminal Bench Science)
Platform: Turing
Open to: Worldwide
Country limits: None published by the platform
Posted: 2026-10-16

About Turing
Turing is one of the world's leading AGI infrastructure companies, working with frontier AI labs to accelerate model development through high-quality training data, evaluations, and engineering talent.

Engagement Details

• Commitments Required: At least 6 hours per day and a minimum of 40 hours per week, with a 4-hour overlap with PST.

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

• Duration of Contract: 5 weeks (expected start date is next week)

About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Life Sciences or Medicine expert to lead a pod of trainers building realistic, terminal-based scientific and technical tasks for Terminal Bench Science. You will review every task your trainers produce for scientific correctness, reproducibility, data compliance, and grader reliability, and coach trainers to consistently deliver high-quality, challenging tasks.
Key Responsibilities

• Review trainer tasks end to end, including task statements, biological and clinical datasets, reference files, pipelines, environments, reference solutions, and automated tests.

• Verify that tasks reflect authentic research or clinical analysis workflows and require genuine multi-step scientific reasoning.

• Check that tools, reference genomes, annotation versions, databases, and dependencies are pinned and that pipelines are reproducible.

• Validate scientific correctness, including genome builds, coordinate conventions, normalization, batch-effect handling, statistical assumptions, multiple-testing correction, units, dosing conventions, imaging orientation and spacing, and random-seed control.

• Ensure graders verify substantive outputs such as variant calls, differential expression results, cluster assignments, binding or structural metrics, survival estimates, model performance, segmentation accuracy, and pharmacokinetic parameters rather than formatting.

• Ensure tolerances account for legitimate stochastic and numerical variation without accepting incorrect analyses.

• Ensure tasks cannot be gamed through hard-coded outputs, reading test files, or bypassing the intended analysis.

• Confirm that all data is synthetic, public, appropriately licensed, and de-identified, with no protected health information or restricted-access data.

• Screen tasks for biosafety and dual-use concerns.

• Escalate content involving dangerous pathogens, toxins, or enhancement of harmful biological capabilities.

• Provide clear, actionable written feedback and track revisions through closure.

• Onboard and mentor trainers.

• Allocate work, track quality and throughput, and escalate blockers.

• Maintain pod documentation covering guidelines, recurring issues, and exemplary tasks.

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Required Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.D., M.D.-Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced experience in a life science, biomedical, or medical field with a substantial computational component.

• Strong programming skills in Python or R, plus Bash, with Linux and terminal proficiency.

• Hands-on experience with bioinformatics pipelines, computational biology, biostatistics, medical imaging analysis, or clinical data analysis.

• Strong understanding of experimental design, statistical inference, and reproducibility in biomedical research.

• Proven experience reviewing code, analyses, manuscripts, or research outputs.

• Experience mentoring or leading small technical or research teams.

• Excellent written communication skills for providing precise, constructive feedback.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with tools such as samtools, bcftools, GATK, BWA, STAR, Salmon, DESeq2, edgeR, Seurat, Scanpy, Biopython, Bioconductor, Nextflow, or Snakemake.

• Familiarity with RDKit, OpenMM, GROMACS, AutoDock Vina, PyMOL, or Biopython structure tools.

• Familiarity with medical imaging and clinical tools such as pydicom, nibabel, SimpleITK, MONAI, FSL, lifelines, statsmodels, or FHIR data formats.

• Familiarity with Docker, Conda, Git, CI systems, automated testing, and HPC environments.

• Experience designing benchmarks, analysis challenges, or computational evaluations.

Bonus Points

• Experience evaluating AI coding or terminal agents.

• Experience with data governance, IRB processes, or biosafety review.

• Industry experience in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or health technology.

• Publications or open-source contributions in computational biology, bioinformatics, or biomedical informatics.

• Prior experience in AI training or evaluation programs.
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in Turing's words

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About Turing Turing is one of the world's leading AGI infrastructure companies, working with frontier AI labs to accelerate model development through high-quality training data, evaluations, and engineering talent.

Engagement Details

• Commitments Required: At least 6 hours per day and a minimum of 40 hours per week, with a 4-hour overlap with PST.

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

• Duration of Contract: 5 weeks (expected start date is next week)

About the Role We are seeking an experienced Life Sciences or Medicine expert to lead a pod of trainers building realistic, terminal-based scientific and technical tasks for Terminal Bench Science. You will review every task your trainers produce for scientific correctness, reproducibility, data compliance, and grader reliability, and coach trainers to consistently deliver high-quality, challenging tasks. Key Responsibilities

• Review trainer tasks end to end, including task statements, biological and clinical datasets, reference files, pipelines, environments, reference solutions, and automated tests.

• Verify that tasks reflect authentic research or clinical analysis workflows and require genuine multi-step scientific reasoning.

• Check that tools, reference genomes, annotation versions, databases, and dependencies are pinned and that pipelines are reproducible.

• Validate scientific correctness, including genome builds, coordinate conventions, normalization, batch-effect handling, statistical assumptions, multiple-testing correction, units, dosing conventions, imaging orientation and spacing, and random-seed control.

• Ensure graders verify substantive outputs such as variant calls, differential expression results, cluster assignments, binding or structural metrics, survival estimates, model performance, segmentation accuracy, and pharmacokinetic parameters rather than formatting.

• Ensure tolerances account for legitimate stochastic and numerical variation without accepting incorrect analyses.

• Ensure tasks cannot be gamed through hard-coded outputs, reading test files, or bypassing the intended analysis.

• Confirm that all data is synthetic, public, appropriately licensed, and de-identified, with no protected health information or restricted-access data.

• Screen tasks for biosafety and dual-use concerns.

• Escalate content involving dangerous pathogens, toxins, or enhancement of harmful biological capabilities.

• Provide clear, actionable written feedback and track revisions through closure.

• Onboard and mentor trainers.

• Allocate work, track quality and throughput, and escalate blockers.

• Maintain pod documentation covering guidelines, recurring issues, and exemplary tasks.

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Required Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.D., M.D.-Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced experience in a life science, biomedical, or medical field with a substantial computational component.

• Strong programming skills in Python or R, plus Bash, with Linux and terminal proficiency.

• Hands-on experience with bioinformatics pipelines, computational biology, biostatistics, medical imaging analysis, or clinical data analysis.

• Strong understanding of experimental design, statistical inference, and reproducibility in biomedical research.

• Proven experience reviewing code, analyses, manuscripts, or research outputs.

• Experience mentoring or leading small technical or research teams.

• Excellent written communication skills for providing precise, constructive feedback.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with tools such as samtools, bcftools, GATK, BWA, STAR, Salmon, DESeq2, edgeR, Seurat, Scanpy, Biopython, Bioconductor, Nextflow, or Snakemake.

• Familiarity with RDKit, OpenMM, GROMACS, AutoDock Vina, PyMOL, or Biopython structure tools.

• Familiarity with medical imaging and clinical tools such as pydicom, nibabel, SimpleITK, MONAI, FSL, lifelines, statsmodels, or FHIR data formats.

• Familiarity with Docker, Conda, Git, CI systems, automated testing, and HPC environments.

• Experience designing benchmarks, analysis challenges, or computational evaluations.

Bonus Points

• Experience evaluating AI coding or terminal agents.

• Experience with data governance, IRB processes, or biosafety review.

• Industry experience in biotech, pharma, clinical research, or health technology.

• Publications or open-source contributions in computational biology, bioinformatics, or biomedical informatics.

• Prior experience in AI training or evaluation programs.

Working with TuringPay, getting started and work, from Turing's own pages

What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.

Getting paid: Paid monthly, around the 5th, straight to your bank account, or inside Deel on projects run through Deel. Its help articles disagree on whether that is the 5th calendar day or business day. help.turing.com/articles/9691407757-project-onboarding, help.turing.com/articles/6582454854-what-if-i-haven-t-rec..., help.turing.com/articles/1226770947-project-offboarding
Before your first paid task: A short application, with tests on some roles. Turing's review article says an interview is typically required for all roles. Onboarding covers the terms, ID verification with a driver's license or passport, and tax and payment details. help.turing.com/articles/2020987592-apply-for-jobs-at-turing, help.turing.com/articles/9179629201-how-long-does-the-app..., help.turing.com/articles/9691407757-project-onboarding
How much work: Review takes from 48 hours to 6 weeks after you finish applying, and the client makes the final choice. No reply within 6 weeks usually means you were not selected. help.turing.com/articles/9179629201-how-long-does-the-app..., help.turing.com/articles/2020987592-apply-for-jobs-at-turing
Contract: Depending on the project, the engagement rests on Turing's Terms of Service and a Service Agreement, on Deel, or on a partner that provides the contract. help.turing.com/articles/6582454854-what-if-i-haven-t-rec...

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micro1	155	$12 to $400 · median $110
Alignerr	148	$24 to $200 · median $80
AfterQuery	93	$45 to $175 · median $100
Mercor	90	$55 to $450 · median $120
Handshake AI	81	$30 to $300 · median $80

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Posted by Turing: 16 Oct 2026
First seen by AIPayList: 16 Oct 2026
Last seen live: 25 Oct 2026
Listing ID: 114106

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