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You produce deep, honest comparisons and benchmarks by actually coding the tests, running the numbers over time, and re-measuring. The kind of content engineers trust and link to for years. You'll use AI to go faster, but every claim is verified and reproducible.\nAbout SearchApi\nSearchApi is a real-time SERP API delivering structured data from 100+ search engines and sources, including Google Search, Google Shopping, Google Jobs, Bing, Baidu, YouTube, Amazon, and many more. We power production workloads for Fortune 500 companies, AI startups, and developers who need reliable search data at scale.\nWe're a lean, profitable, bootstrapped team. No VC pressure, no bloat. Just people shipping real products to real customers.\nWhy Join Us?\nYour work compounds. Evergreen, honest content wins search and trust for years, not days.\n\nReal autonomy. You pick what's worth researching and own it end to end.\n\nPublished under our name. Your work represents the company to a technical audience.\n\nAI-native company. You'll live at the edge of new tools, testing them for real.\n\nBootstrapped and Profitable. We answer to customers, not investors.\n\nHow You Work\nYou write code to benchmark APIs and tools, not just describe them.\n\nYou're comfortable with data: spreadsheets, simple scripts, and charts that are honest.\n\nYou test the no-code and agent ecosystem hands-on (n8n, OpenClaw, Hermes, MCP, AI workflows).\n\nYou improve our docs and product by actually using them.\n\nYou Use AI, You Don't Let It Write For You\nAI makes research faster, and it also produces confident nonsense. You use it to move quickly, then you verify every number and every claim. If a benchmark isn't reproducible, it doesn't ship. We will know the difference.\nWhat You'll Do\nWrite \"Best X API\" comparisons backed by real benchmarks. You code the tests, run them, and publish the method alongside the result.\n\nRun estimations over time. Re-measure, track how things change, and update the work so it stays true.\n\nTest and review tools. No-code platforms, agent frameworks, AI workflows. Hands-on, honest writeups.\n\nImprove docs and product. Your research surfaces the rough edges. You document them and help fix them.\n\nTurn research into content that ranks and converts. Useful first, discoverable second.\n\nYou set the agenda. You decide what's worth measuring and what story the data actually tells.\nThe Hard Parts\nThis role is not for everyone. Here's what makes it hard:\nReal research is slow. Coding a fair benchmark takes longer than writing an opinion. You do it anyway.\n\nYou publish unflattering truths. Sometimes the honest result makes us look worse. You publish it.\n\nYou build the rig, not just the prose. The code and data behind a number matter as much as the number.\n\nAmbiguity. You choose the questions worth answering.\n\nIf you want to churn out AI-written articles, this isn't for you.\nAbout You\nA technical writer who codes. You can stand up a benchmark and explain it clearly.\n\nIntellectually honest. You follow the data, even when it's inconvenient.\n\nComfortable with APIs and tooling. You read docs, call APIs, and wire up tests without hand-holding.\n\nCurious about the AI tooling space. You actually enjoy trying the new thing.\n\nSelf-directed. You don't need a content calendar handed to you.\n\nNative or near-native English. Writing is the whole job.\n\nRequired experience:\nA long-form technical piece you wrote, plus the code or data behind a benchmark or estimation in it.\n\nWe're especially looking for:\nA blog or portfolio of evergreen technical content.\n\nExperience benchmarking APIs, tools, or models.\n\nFamiliarity with the no-code and agent ecosystem.\n\nWhat We Look For\nWhat makes a strong application:\nLink one technical piece you wrote and the code or dataset behind a number in it. In two sentences, how would we reproduce that number from scratch? Real research has a rig. AI slop has prose and no reproducible number.\nSignals we look for:\nA technical blog you maintain. A benchmark repo. A comparison where you published the unflattering result. Evidence you measure, not guess.\nInclude \"Octopus Tentacle\" in your application so we know you read this. [redacted]\n Get to know each other.\n\nTake-home challenge. A small, real research-and-benchmark task.\n\nFollow-up call. 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