Web Research Specialist

• Design research problems that a state-of-the-art AI cannot solve, even with full web access and multiple attempts
• Start from a verifiable fact and work backwards to construct a question that makes that fact extremely hard to locate
• Produce a natural-language research question with a short, stable, objectively verifiable answer
• Build independently checkable clues spanning multiple fact types including dates, people, places, organisations, works, events, records and quantities
• Run and record the obvious validation searches together with the results they returned
• Prove every piece of work with a complete, auditable evidence trail

Qualifications & Experience:

• Master's degree OR more than 3 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated open-web research ability, including locating primary records and navigating government and institutional databases, archives, registries and PDF documents
• Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming or benchmark construction
• Experience in one or more of: 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

Skills & Competencies:

• Precision with sourcing, citing 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, as the evidence trail is the majority of the work
• Familiarity with JSON and structured data delivery formats is an advantage