Kalshi Is Hiring a GTA 6 Researcher to Stream the Story and Report on Leonida's Economy

The prediction market Kalshi is hiring a GTA VI Researcher: one streamer to start GTA 6 at midnight on November 19, play the story on camera, and report on the economy of Leonida. The listing sits on Kalshi's own careers board as a fixed-term contract role.

Chris Tanasescu, a growth lead at Kalshi, wrote on LinkedIn that "this is a real job", adding: "We're looking for someone whose parents said video games would never pay the bills. They were wrong." The Jerusalem Post, which quoted him, said it could not independently verify that the company will contract anyone.

What the job pays

Outlets give the money differently because the posting does. PowerUp Gaming, quoting the listing, puts it at $100,000 to $120,000 as base pay equivalent for the length of the contract, plus a $15,000 gaming and streaming bonus. Yahoo Finance describes the same package as a fixed project fee of up to $120,000 with another $15,000 once the game and the streaming are finished, which several outlets have written up as up to $135,000.

The extras are listed with the pay: a 100-inch television, a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox, $75 a day in DoorDash credit and a gym membership.

What the researcher has to do

• Start the game at midnight on launch day and stream the story on Twitch or YouTube with the camera on, for more than ten hours a day during launch week.
• Work out the best ways to make money in the game and write a min-max guide to them.
• Publish weekly research on Leonida's commerce, jobs and services, and deliver a "State of the Leonida Economy" address.
• Track what the launch does to the real economy: people calling in sick, food delivery demand, lost productivity.

Kalshi asks for an established streamer with a channel of their own, and sets the bar as "18+ years of life IRL, 10+ years of sweaty gaming, 3+ years of streaming experience", plus a capture and broadcast setup the researcher already owns. A degree in economics or finance is optional.

Kalshi runs a market where people trade contracts on the outcomes of real-world events. It has not said how many people have applied or when it will choose one, and the listing is Kalshi's own: Rockstar is not a party to it.