Web Research Specialist

YoE3+ year of experienceCommitment RequiredFull-time. 40 hours per week with at least 4 hours PST overlapRate RangePay per task: $30 per task. AHT 3 hoursAbout 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 RoleWe 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 ProduceA natural-language research question with a short, stable, objectively verifiable answerClues, each independently checkable, spanning multiple fact types - including dates, people, places, organisations, works, events, records, and quantities - with specific constraintsA validation record showing the obvious searches you ran and the results they returnedMinimum QualificationsDemonstrated open-web research ability, including locating primary records and navigating government and institutional databases, archives, registries, and PDF documentsPrecision with sourcing. You cite exact pages, tables, and sections—not just homepagesComfort researching unfamiliar subjects from scratchNative or near-native written EnglishHigh tolerance for structured documentation. The evidence trail is the majority of the workExperience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmark constructionExperience 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 constructionNice to HaveFamiliarity with JSON and structured data delivery formats