Political Scientists / Policy Analysts — Senior Expert

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

This role involves creating, evaluating, and improving tasks that reflect the work of political scientists and policy analysts. The individual will research political systems, assess public policies, interpret data, and develop evidence-based recommendations. Strong analytical skills, policy knowledge, accuracy, and practical judgment are essential for producing clear, reliable, actionable outputs.

Requirements

• Around 5–15 years of professional experience in policy analysis, political science, public administration, government affairs, or a closely related field.
• An advanced degree such as an MPP, MPA, PhD, or an equivalent postgraduate qualification in public policy, political science, economics, or public administration.
• Strong expertise in regulatory-impact analysis, including assessing the economic, social, legal, and operational effects of proposed or existing regulations.
• Proven ability to conduct stakeholder analysis, understand competing interests, and translate complex evidence into clear, practical recommendations for governments, organizations, or decision-makers.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-difficulty expert tasks and gold-standard solutions in the functional area.
• Review and calibrate team members' output and own day-to-day quality.
• Escalate genuine edge cases and rubric ambiguities to the Functional SME (Expert) Lead.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in any field.
• Experience in AI evaluation, data annotation, content review, quality assurance, or a related analytical role is preferred but not required.

Offer Details:

• Commitments Required: at least 4 hours per day and upto 40 hours per week with 4 hours of overlap with PST.
• Engagement type: Contractor
• Engagement Length: Up to 9 weeks

Evaluation Process -

• Shortlisted candidates will be sent a Job Interest Form.
• Final selected candidates will be contacted with the next steps and onboarding requirements.