# Web Researcher (AI Benchmarking)

**Company:** [Gramian Consulting Group](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/kANY7hHLXDH7fUqyifRLmf.md)
**Location:** Remote
**Workplace:** remote
**Employment type:** Contract
**Department:** Talent Solutions

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## Description

**About Us**

Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. With a strong background in software engineering and leadership, we help companies build high-performing teams by matching them with professionals who truly fit their needs.

**Role overview**

Our client is building advanced evaluation benchmarks for **frontier AI browsing agents**.

We are looking for highly skilled **investigative researchers** who can design research problems that remain difficult even for state-of-the-art AI systems with full web access. This is not a traditional subject-matter or content-writing role. The work is centered on **open-web investigation, evidence tracing, source validation, and benchmark construction**.

You will begin from a verifiable fact, work backwards to construct a difficult research question, and document a complete, auditable evidence trail showing how the answer can be independently verified.

**CONTRACT:** Short-term freelance/contractor assignment, 8 weeka

**COMMITMENT:** 40 hours per week, at least 4 hours per day, including 4 hours overlap with PST

**LOCATIONS:** Remote, GLOBAL

### **Responsibilities**

-   Design challenging **open-web research problems** for evaluating advanced AI browsing agents.
-   Start from objectively verifiable facts and construct questions that make those facts difficult to discover.
-   Build multi-step clue structures involving dates, people, places, organizations, works, events, records, and quantities.
-   Ensure every clue is independently verifiable and subject to clear constraints.
-   Research across government databases, institutional sources, archives, registries, and PDF documents.
-   Produce complete **evidence trails** citing exact pages, tables, sections, or records.
-   Record validation searches and document what obvious search approaches return.
-   Test whether research questions remain difficult across multiple search attempts.
-   Refine questions to eliminate ambiguity while preserving difficulty.
-   Deliver structured, reproducible research documentation.

## Requirements

-   Background in **reference librarianship, archives, or special collections**.
-   Experience in investigative journalism or professional fact-checking.
-   Experience with **OSINT, due diligence, KYC, or investigative research**.
-   Background in patent, prior-art, or legal-discovery research.
-   Experience with genealogy or historical records research.
-   Experience with competitive quizzing, puzzle design, or puzzle-hunt construction.
-   Familiarity with **JSON or structured data formats**.