Data Annotator (Ubuntu Desktop Operator)

About Turing:

Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is the world’s leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems. Turing supports customers in two ways: first, by accelerating frontier research with high-quality data, advanced training pipelines, plus top AI researchers who specialize in coding, reasoning, STEM, multilinguality, multimodality, and agents; and second, by applying that expertise to help enterprises transform AI from proof of concept into proprietary intelligence with systems that perform reliably, deliver measurable impact, and drive lasting results on the P&L.

Role Overview

We are looking for hands-on Ubuntu desktop users to help refine multimodal datasets for AI training. This role involves replaying real computer tasks inside an Ubuntu environment, capturing accurate screenshots, and producing PyAutoGUI-style action annotations step-by-step.

This is not a coding or engineering role. It requires excellent computer usage skills, patience, and strong attention to detail.

Key Responsibilities

• Reconstruct GUI Task Trajectories. For each provided task:
• Interpret the task instruction and text-only trajectory (Observation / Thought / Action).
• Recreate the workflow inside an Ubuntu desktop environment. Also, update the thought and observation, likewise to your provided screenshot
• Create New Tasks and perform the task based on the given existing prompts and annotate it with screenshots + action JSON in realistic Ubuntu desktop tasks (e.g., using VLC, LibreOffice, GIMP, browser tasks).
• Maintain Annotation Quality

Required Skills

• Linux / Ubuntu Usage (Mandatory): File Manager, desktop navigation, window switching, settings, basic file paths, and user directories.
• Open-source Application Experience (Required): Chrome, VLC Media Player, LibreOffice Writer/Calc/Impress, GIMP, Thunderbird, VS Code.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in: IT helpdesk, QA/manual testing, Linux desktop administration, UI-based data annotation.
• Familiarity with task recording or automation tools (optional).

What This Role Is Not

• Not a programming, research, creative engineering, coding, or high-level design job.
• Not suitable for beginners who use only smartphones or Windows casually.
• This is a precision-driven, GUI-based desktop annotation job.

Perks of Freelancing With Turing

• Fully remote work.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects with leading LLM companies.

Offer Details:

• Commitments Required: at least 4 hours per day and minimum 30 hours per week with 4 hours of overlap with PST. 
• Engagement  type  : Contractor assignment (no medical/paid leave)
• Duration of contract : 2 month