Turing

Sr Director / Director - Solution Architecture (USA)

Job Description

About Turing

Based in Palo Alto, California, Turing is one of the world's fastest-growing AGI infrastructure companies accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. Turing has two main business lines: Turing AGI Advancement, which works with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and Turing Intelligence, which leverages learnings from advancing frontier AGI to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for Fortune 500 Companies. Powering this growth is Turing’s AI-powered vetting and matching engine and its fine-tuning platform, ALAN, which accelerates workflows for model evaluations, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and agent development.

Turing has received numerous awards, including Forbes's "One of America's Best Startup Employers," #1 on The Information's annual list of "Most Promising B2B Companies," and Fast Company's annual list of the "World's Most Innovative Companies." Turing's leadership team includes AI technologists from industry giants Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, McKinsey, Bain, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT. For more information on Turing, visit www.turing.com. For information on upcoming Turing AGI Icons events, visit go.turing.com/agi-icons.

Role Description:

Lead technical pre-sales activities including discovery calls, proposals, presentations, RFP responses, and proof-of-concepts to acquire new software development clients
Conduct detailed technical evaluation and assessment of client requirements for project scoping and estimation
Develop relationships with prospective clients and identify new business opportunities
Guide account teams on technical sales strategy and provide pre-sales support
Build centers of excellence and reusable assets to accelerate pre-sales and delivery
Design technology solutions combining internal capabilities and third-party products/services
Work with delivery teams to develop solution accelerators, frameworks, and prototypes
Keep up-to-date with latest technologies and methodologies through self-learning, conferences etc.
Contribute thought leadership through public speaking, blogs, white papers etc

Requirements:

10+ years of experience in software development and solution architecture roles
5+ years experience in pre-sales and solution architecture roles
Strong experience in software engineering and architecture patterns
Background in full-stack development using Java, Python, JavaScript etc.
Hands-on expertise on Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP
Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
Willingness to travel for client meetings and events

Travel: Up to 25% of the time

Advantages of joining Turing:

Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
Competitive compensation
Flexible working hours
Full-time remote opportunity

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

For applicants from the European Union, please review Turing's GDPR notice here.