[Hiring] Web Researcher @Turing

Role Description

We are building an evaluation benchmark for frontier AI browsing agents. Your job is to design research problems that a state-of-the-art AI cannot solve, even with full web access and multiple attempts. This is not a subject matter expert role, nor is it a content-writing role. It is investigative research.

You will start from a verifiable fact, work backwards to construct a question that makes that fact extremely hard to locate, and then prove your work with a complete, auditable evidence trail.

What You Will Produce

• A natural-language research question with a short, stable, objectively verifiable answer.
• Clues, each independently checkable, spanning multiple fact types - including dates, people, places, organisations, works, events, records, and quantities - with specific constraints.
• A validation record showing the obvious searches you ran and the results they returned.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated open-web research ability, including locating primary records and navigating government and institutional databases, archives, registries, and PDF documents.
• Precision with sourcing. You cite exact pages, tables, and sections—not just homepages.
• Comfort researching unfamiliar subjects from scratch.
• Native or near-native written English.
• High tolerance for structured documentation. The evidence trail is the majority of the work.
• Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmark construction.
• Experience in one or more of the following domains:
  • Reference librarianship, archival research, or special collections.
  • Investigative journalism or professional fact-checking.
  • OSINT, due diligence, KYC, or investigative research.
  • Patent, prior-art, or legal-discovery search.
  • Genealogy and records research.
  • Competitive quizzing or puzzle-hunt construction.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with JSON and structured data delivery formats.

Requirements

• Commitments Required: 40 hours per week with at least 4 hours PST overlap.
• Employment type: Contractor assignment (no medical/paid leave).
• Duration of contract: 8 weeks.

Application Process

• Complete the assessment shared with you.
• Our team will evaluate your submission.
• Selected candidates will be contacted regarding the next steps.