Web Research Specialist at Turing

Web Research Specialist | Contractor | 8-Week Engagement | Worldwide Remote

Turing is seeking a skilled Web Research Specialist to help build a cutting-edge evaluation benchmark for frontier AI browsing agents. This is a unique investigative research role where your mission is to design research problems that even the most advanced AI systems cannot solve — with full web access and multiple attempts.

This is not a subject matter expert or content-writing role. It is rigorous, structured, investigative research work.

About Turing

Turing is one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. Turing partners with leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities and builds real-world AI solutions for mission-critical enterprise challenges.

What You'll Do

• Start from a verifiable fact and work backwards to construct a question that makes that fact extremely difficult to locate online.
• Produce natural-language research questions with short, stable, and objectively verifiable answers.
• Develop independently checkable clues spanning multiple fact types — dates, people, places, organisations, works, events, records, and quantities.
• Build a complete, auditable evidence trail documenting your searches and results.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated open-web research skills, including locating primary records and navigating government databases, institutional 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 proficiency.
• High tolerance for structured documentation — the evidence trail is the majority of the work.
• Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmark construction.
• Background 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.

Engagement Details

• Commitment: 40 hours per week with at least 4 hours PST overlap required
• Employment Type: Contractor assignment (no medical/paid leave benefits)
• Duration: 8-week contract

Application Process

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