Web Researcher

Title: Web Research Specialist

Duration: 2 Months + Possible extension.

Employment Type: Freelancing Contract

Average Handling Time per Task: 3 hours

Pay Rate: $30/task (Effective ~$10/hour)

Job Locations: 100% Remote - Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Indonesia, Turkey, Vietnam

Commitment Required: Full-time. 40 hours per week with at least 4 hours PST overlap

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, organizations, works, events, records, and quantities - with specific constraints
• A validation record showing the obvious searches you ran and the results they returned

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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 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 majority of the work.
• Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmark construction.

Experience 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:

• Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmark construction
• Familiarity with JSON and structured data delivery formats