Web Research Specialist

About this opportunity

Turing is looking for experienced web researchers to build evaluation benchmarks for frontier AI browsing agents. The role involves starting from verifiable facts, working backwards to create difficult research questions, and documenting a complete, auditable evidence trail using primary records, institutional databases, archives, registries, and other reliable sources.

What the listing describes

• ✓Design natural-language research questions with short, stable, objectively verifiable answers
• ✓Construct difficult research problems that challenge advanced AI browsing agents
• ✓Develop independently checkable clues spanning dates, people, places, organizations, works, events, records, and quantities
• ✓Research unfamiliar subjects from scratch using open-web sources
• ✓Locate and verify primary records and authoritative sources
• ✓Navigate government and institutional databases, archives, registries, and PDF documents
• ✓Document exact pages, tables, sections, and other evidence supporting research findings
• ✓Create complete and auditable evidence trails for each research problem
• ✓Record the obvious searches performed and the results returned
• ✓Deliver research outputs in a structured format

Requirements shown on the source

• ✓Master's degree or more than 3 years of relevant experience
• ✓Demonstrated open-web research ability
• ✓Experience locating primary records and navigating government and institutional databases, archives, registries, and PDF documents
• ✓High precision with sourcing, including citing exact pages, tables, and sections
• ✓Ability to research unfamiliar subjects from scratch
• ✓Native or near-native written English
• ✓High tolerance for structured documentation and detailed evidence trails
• ✓Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmark construction
• ✓Experience in 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; or competitive quizzing and puzzle-hunt construction

Relevant backgrounds mentioned

• ✓Familiarity with JSON and structured data delivery formats