Posted 18 days ago
Research Contractor
@ FutureSearch
Remote in Canada
Overview
FutureSearch is hiring a research contractor to help develop tasks for training and benchmarking frontier AI models. The work is fully remote at about 20 hours a week on a one-month contract, with a possible extension or conversion to full-time, at $75 to $125 an hour depending on location.
Pay:
$75–$125 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Develop tasks for training and benchmarking frontier models
- Track down claims and sources in academic papers and financial documents
- Cross-reference information using web research LLM tools
- Communicate reasoning and uncertainties concisely
Requirements summary:
- Very careful, patient approach to subtle information retrieval
- Strong familiarity with web research LLM tools and their strengths and weaknesses
- Calibrated on what is unknown or uncertain
- Strong written and verbal communication
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · workable
- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-19
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-20
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-30
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Department | Research & science |
| Hours per week | 20 |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Flexible hours |
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FutureSearch
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1 |
FutureSearch is looking for an exceptional research contractor to support the development of tasks for training and benchmarking frontier models.
We are an elite team of engineers and researchers at the frontier of AI epistemics. We have the best publicly available forecaster, with a public track record in forecasting tournaments at evals.futuresearch.ai and markets.futuresearch.ai. We publish papers, such as our ICLR Workshop paper in Jan 2026, and benchmarks like Deep Research Bench and Bench to the Future. We use our frontier research tools to research the future, such as co-authoring the AI 2027 Timelines Forecast. We work with frontier labs on research, evaluation, and training.
Requirements
You are a very careful researcher. You can patiently get to the bottom of a subtle information retrieval task, such as finding claims in an academic paper, cross-referencing financial documents, or tracking down the original source of a claim.
You have strong familiarity with using web research LLM tools (such as chatbots with their research tooling enabled), are familiar with their strengths and weaknesses, and update your views as the tooling changes. You know how to leverage these tools to rapidly get up to speed on a new domain, while remaining calibrated on what you don’t know or are uncertain about.
You are a strong communicator, and can quickly, concisely, and accurately explain your reasoning and uncertainties. You work well in both synchronous environments (verbally explaining your thought process) an asynchronous environment (quickly and concisely communicating in writing).
Benefits
FutureSearch is fully remote. We have flexible hours, and operate in a high trust environment. The hourly rate for this role varies from $75 to $125/hour based primarily on location. You should expect to work an average of 20 hours/week for the duration of the contract. Week-to-week work will be dynamic, but expectations for hours will be communicated before-hand.
This is a 1 month contract with the opportunity to extend and/or convert to a full-time position.
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