Web Research Specialist

Turing; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Turing is hiring for an investigative research contractor to design and validate research problems that challenge frontier AI browsing agents. You will craft questions from verifiable facts and build an auditable evidence trail with independent, checkable clues spanning dates, people, places, organizations, and records.

The role emphasizes producing an evidence-rich validation record, precise sourcing, and native-level English communication while operating as a contractor for an 8‑week, 40-hour

Qualifications

• Demonstrated open-web research ability locating primary records
• Precise sourcing citing exact pages, tables, sections
• Native or near-native written English proficiency
• Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmarks
• Familiarity with archival or government databases and PDFs

Responsibilities

• Design research problems that are hard to locate with full web access
• Construct questions from verifiable facts with auditable trails
• Produce a clear evidence trail showing searches and results

Skills

Open-web research

Precision sourcing

English proficiency

LLM evaluation

OSINT research

Patent/discovery

JSON familiarity

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.