Web Research Specialist

Turing; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40 hours per week with 4 hours PSTover

Contractor assignment (no medical/paid

8-week duration

Job summary

Turing is building an evaluation benchmark for frontier AI browsing agents. The role focuses on designing research problems that are unsolved even with full web access, starting from a verifiable fact and working backward to craft a difficult question with an auditable evidence trail.

You will produce a clear research question, a set of checkable clues across diverse data types, and a validation record showing the searches and results. This is investigative research, not topic-domain expertise.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to locate primary records and cite exact pages, tables, and sections.
• Native or near-native written English.
• Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmark construction.

Responsibilities

• Design research problems that are hard to solve even with full web access.
• Create an auditable evidence trail for each finding.
• Coordinate and document the verification process across sources.

Skills

Open-web research

Citation precision

Structured documentation

LLM evaluation

OSINT

Native English

Tools

JSON

Job description

About Turing:

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

Turing helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s 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.