Web Research Specialist at Turing

Web Research Specialist | Contractor | Remote (US Only) | 8-Week Engagement

Turing is seeking a sharp, detail-obsessed Web Research Specialist to help build a cutting-edge evaluation benchmark for frontier AI browsing agents. This is a unique investigative research role — not content writing, not subject matter expertise — designed for people who love finding what others can't.

About Turing

Turing is one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. We partner with leading AI labs to push the boundaries of reasoning, coding, multimodality, and frontier knowledge — then apply that work to solve mission-critical challenges for enterprise customers.

About the Role

Your mission: design research problems that a state-of-the-art AI cannot solve — even with full web access and multiple attempts. You'll start from a verifiable fact, reverse-engineer a question that makes it extremely difficult to locate, and document a complete, auditable evidence trail proving your work.

What You'll Produce

• A natural-language research question with a short, stable, objectively verifiable answer
• Multiple independently checkable clues spanning fact types — dates, people, places, organizations, works, events, records, and quantities
• A validation record documenting the obvious searches you ran and the results they returned

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated open-web research skills, including locating primary records and navigating government databases, institutional archives, registries, and PDF documents
• Precision 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 core 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

• Hours: 40 hours/week with at least 4 hours PST overlap required
• Employment Type: Contractor assignment (no medical/paid leave benefits)
• Duration: 8 weeks
• Location: United States residents only

Application Process

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