Agentic Life Science Expert

About this opportunity

Turing is seeking Computational Life Sciences experts with strong scientific programming skills to develop complex, realistic tasks for Agentic Life Sciences. The work involves designing workflows in which AI agents independently navigate scientific data, write and execute code, use computational tools, troubleshoot intermediate results, and produce scientifically valid outputs. Tasks must measure scientific reasoning and execution rather than simple memorization.

What the listing describes

• ✓Design challenging and realistic agentic scientific workflows across the life sciences
• ✓Create tasks requiring multiple computational steps rather than simple scripts or question-and-answer solutions
• ✓Develop realistic input files, scientific datasets, instructions, constraints, and expected deliverables
• ✓Build tasks requiring agents to inspect data, select appropriate methods, execute analyses, troubleshoot problems, and synthesize results
• ✓Create reproducible expert solutions and objectively verifiable ground truths
• ✓Design robust automated or semi-automated grading criteria
• ✓Ensure tasks measure scientific reasoning and execution rather than memorization
• ✓Validate scientific assumptions, calculations, code, intermediate outputs, and final answers
• ✓Ensure tasks are self-contained and executable in controlled, network-isolated computational environments
• ✓Maintain high quality and throughput while responding effectively to reviewer feedback

Requirements shown on the source

• ✓Ph.D., postdoctoral, or equivalent research experience in the life sciences
• ✓Strong demonstrated computational and scientific programming experience
• ✓Strong scientific programming experience, particularly in Python
• ✓Experience performing multi-step computational scientific analyses
• ✓Ability to independently validate scientific reasoning and computational outputs

Relevant backgrounds mentioned

• ✓Expertise in bioinformatics
• ✓Expertise in computational genomics
• ✓Expertise in systems biology
• ✓Expertise in computational neuroscience
• ✓Expertise in biostatistics
• ✓Expertise in computational drug discovery
• ✓Expertise in computational biochemistry
• ✓Expertise in structural biology
• ✓Expertise in protein engineering
• ✓Expertise in computational microbiology
• ✓Experience with scientific libraries and command-line tools
• ✓Experience creating reproducible research pipelines
• ✓Ability to translate authentic research workflows into bounded, objectively gradable tasks