Hirely is recruiting highly skilled Web Research Specialists for an AI evaluation project with a hiring partner. You’ll help build challenging research benchmarks designed to test the ability of frontier AI browsing agents to find and verify information across the open web.

This is investigative research, not content writing . You’ll work backwards from verifiable facts to construct difficult research questions, identify independently checkable clues, and build complete evidence trails that allow every answer to be audited.

What You'll Do

- Design natural-language research questions with short, stable, objectively verifiable answers
- Start from verifiable facts and work backwards to create challenging research problems
- Research unfamiliar subjects from scratch using the open web
- Locate primary records and authoritative sources
- Navigate government and institutional databases, archives, registries, and PDF documents
- Develop multiple independently verifiable clues using dates, people, places, organizations, works, events, records, and quantities
- Apply specific constraints to make research problems challenging for AI browsing agents
- Document the complete evidence trail supporting each research problem
- Record exact pages, tables, sections, and other relevant source locations
- Run and document obvious search approaches and record the results returned
- Validate that research questions have objectively verifiable answers
- Produce structured research and validation records
- Work with LLM evaluation and AI benchmark requirements

Who We're Looking For

- Master's degree OR 3+ years of relevant professional experience
- Demonstrated open-web research ability
- Experience locating primary records and navigating institutional or government databases
- Strong ability to work with archives, registries, and PDF documents
- Exceptional sourcing and citation precision
- Ability to cite exact pages, tables,



sections, or records rather than simply linking to homepages
- Comfortable researching completely unfamiliar subjects
- Native or near-native written English
- Robust attention to detail and structured documentation
- High tolerance for evidence-heavy research workflows
- Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmark construction

Relevant Backgrounds Experience in one or more of the following areas is particularly relevant: reference librarianship, archival or special-collections research, investigative journalism, professional fact-checking, OSINT, due diligence, KYC or investigative research, patent or prior-art research, legal-discovery search, genealogy and records research, competitive quizzing, or puzzle-hunt construction.

Nice to Have

- Familiarity with JSON
- Experience working with structured data formats
- Experience creating reproducible research workflows

Compensation & Terms

- Estimated earning potential of approximately $30 per approved task based on the current task mix
- 8-week project
- Ideally up to 40 hours/week
- Full-time availability preferred

Application Process

1. Apply to the opportunity
2. Complete the required assessment
3. Candidates who successfully pass the assessment proceed to onboarding
4. Begin the project following successful onboarding

Important Requirement: This is investigative research rather than content writing. Strong candidates should be comfortable proving their findings through a detailed, auditable evidence trail and citing precise source locations.

About Hirely

Hirely connects professionals with remote opportunities from hiring partners across artificial intelligence, software engineering, cloud, data, research, and other specialised fields.

Hirely acts as a recruitment and talent-sourcing partner for the hiring companies it represents. Final hiring decisions, onboarding, compensation, and project assignments are determined by the hiring partner.

📌 Web Research Specialist | ~$30/task (India)
🏢 Hirely
📍 India