Xoogler Engineering Fractional Work Q&A with Turing's VP Engineering

The 35,000+ member Xoogler community heard from Satayu Mehta, Turing' s VP of Engineering, AI and LLM Fine-Tuning on 8/21/25 as he shared opportunities for ex-Google engineers to explore work opportunities from 10 hours/week and up. Email [email protected] if you're an engineer looking to be connect to Turing or company looking to hire Xooglers.

Here are the topics that were covered:
1. What kind of fractional work are typically
2. What are the requirements of the role and nature of work?
3. How are the projects scoped?
4. Can you pick the clients you work with?
5. What is the compensation like?
5. What is the roadmap for a fractional software developer career?

About Satayu Mehta's (  / satayum  ) work at Turing
Leading an engineering team of over 1,000+ developers focused on building SOTA models.
Collaborating with leading AI organizations to train LLMs focused on enhancing capabilities in coding, mathematical reasoning, multimodal understanding, function calling and complex thought chains.
Expert in assessing the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs and fine tuning them through supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).

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