Frontier AI Research Investigator — 8-Week Contractor

Turing; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor assignment (no medical/paid

8 weeks duration

Job summary

Turing in Austin, TX seeks a contractor to design research problems for frontier AI browsing agents, starting from a verifiable fact and crafting a question that is hard to locate. You will build an auditable evidence trail and produce a structured set of clues across dates, people, places, and organisations.

The role emphasizes open-web sourcing, precise citations, and experience with LLM evaluation or benchmarks. This is a contractor assignment for 8 weeks, 40 hours per week with PST overlap.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated open-web research ability with primary records and PDFs.
• Precision with citing pages, tables, sections.
• Native or near-native written English.
• High tolerance for structured documentation; evidence trail is key.
• Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, benchmark construction.
• Background in reference librarianship, archival research, or investigative research.

Responsibilities

• Design research problems starting from a verifiable fact and crafting hard-to-find questions.
• Construct a complete, auditable evidence trail with clues spanning multiple fact types.
• Produce an auditable validation record showing searches and results.

Skills

Open-web research

Precise sourcing

Native English

Structured documentation

LLM evaluation

Investigative research

Job description

Turing in Austin, TX seeks a contractor to design research problems for frontier AI browsing agents, starting from a verifiable fact and crafting a question that is hard to locate. You will build an auditable evidence trail and produce a structured set of clues across dates, people, places, and organisations.

The role emphasizes open-web sourcing, precise citations, and experience with LLM evaluation or benchmarks. This is a contractor assignment for 8 weeks, 40 hours per week with PST overlap.