Web Researcher

turing; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Turing is hiring for a contractor to build an evaluation benchmark for frontier AI browsing agents. Your work will involve designing challenging research problems that require an auditable evidence trail, starting from verifiable facts and reconstructing questions that make those facts hard to locate.

You'll deliver a structured output including a runnable set of clues across dates, people, places, organizations, works, events, records, and quantities, plus a validation trail showing search

Qualifications

• Proven open-web research ability locating primary records from government and institutional databases.
• Precision with sourcing—cite exact pages, tables, and sections.
• Native or near-native written English.
• Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmark construction.
• Experience in archival research, investigative journalism, or OSINT is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Produce a natural-language research question with a stable, verifiable answer.
• Create independent clues spanning dates, people, places, organisations, works, events, records, quantities.
• Provide a validation record listing searches and results.

Skills

Open-web research ability

Primary source sourcing

English writing

Evidence trail documentation

LLM evaluation experience

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.

Application Process:

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