Web Research Specialist

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

About Turing:

Turing is one of the worlds fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.

Turing helps customers in two ways: Working with the worlds leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies.

About the Role

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

Minimum 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

Offer Details:

• 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.