Web Research Specialist

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

• Master's OR >3 YOE.
• 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 sectionsnot 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:

1.   Reference librarianship, archival research, or special collections
2.   Investigative journalism or professional fact-checking
3.   OSINT, due diligence, KYC, or investigative research
4.   Patent, prior-art, or legal-discovery search
5.   Genealogy and records research
6.   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.