Board Game Reasoning Expert (AI Training & Evaluation)
Job Description
About Turing
Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. Turing helps leading AI labs improve the reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities of large language models (LLMs) through high-quality human feedback, evaluation, and training data.
Role Overview
We are seeking Board Game Reasoning Experts to help train and evaluate next-generation AI models. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in board games, game mechanics, strategic reasoning, probability, and complex rule systems to create, review, and evaluate high-quality datasets that improve AI performance.
You will work on challenging tasks involving game logic, decision-making, strategic planning, rule interpretation, and scenario analysis, helping frontier AI systems develop stronger reasoning capabilities.
What Does Day-to-Day Look Like?
Create and review game-based reasoning tasks designed to evaluate AI systems.
Analyze board game scenarios, strategic decision trees, and rule-based systems.
Evaluate AI-generated responses for correctness, consistency, and reasoning quality.
Develop prompts, rubrics, and evaluation guidelines for board game and strategy-focused tasks.
Identify logical errors, rule violations, and flawed reasoning in AI outputs.
Contribute to benchmark creation and quality assurance processes for AI evaluation projects.
Collaborate with project teams to improve dataset quality and evaluation methodologies.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Cognitive Science, Game Design, Philosophy, Economics, or a related analytical field.
2+ years of professional or semi-professional experience in board game design, playtesting, tabletop game communities, or related strategy-focused environments.
Strong understanding of logic, probabilistic reasoning, game mechanics, and complex rule systems.
Background in game theory, behavioral economics, decision science, or formal logic.
Familiarity with modern board games, trading card games (TCGs), tabletop RPGs, strategy games, or competitive game systems.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Prior experience in data annotation, AI training, prompt engineering, QA, game design, puzzle design, or rules-based system analysis.
Experience creating evaluation rubrics, benchmark datasets, or quality assurance frameworks.
Experience with Python, SQL, or data analysis tools.
Experience working on RLHF, model evaluation, synthetic data generation, or LLM benchmarking projects.
Familiarity with recently released strategy or tabletop games and the ability to quickly learn new rule systems.
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.
Engagement type : Contractor assignment (no medical/paid leave)
Duration of contract : 2 months; [expected start date is next week]
Evaluation Process
Take home Assessment
About Turing
The Turing story
Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is a leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems. Turing supports customers in two ways: accelerating frontier research with high-quality data, advanced training pipelines that push the boundaries of reasoning, multimodality, and STEM, plus top AI researchers with expertise in frontier data for coding, reasoning, STEM, multilinguality, multimodality, and agents; and applying that expertise to help enterprises transform AI from proof of concept into proprietary intelligence: systems that perform, deliver impact, and drive lasting results on the P&L.
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 list of the “Best Workplaces for Innovators." Turing’s leadership team includes AI technologists from industry giants Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, McKinsey, Bain, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT.

