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About the Role
We are seeking Earth Sciences experts to develop realistic, terminal-based scientific tasks for Terminal Bench Science. You will create computational workflows involving environmental data, climate systems, atmospheric processes, geophysics, oceanography, geology, and related fields. You will design tasks that require AI agents to inspect scientific datasets, process geospatial or time-series data, run models, troubleshoot pipelines, and generate objectively verifiable scientific outputs.
What You'll Do
- Translate authentic Earth-science workflows into self-contained terminal benchmark tasks.
- Prepare geospatial, climate, atmospheric, geological, hydrological, or oceanographic datasets.
- Build reproducible computational environments with appropriate scientific libraries and command-line tools.
- Create expert solutions using Python, R, Bash, Julia, or domain-specific software.
- Develop tasks involving geospatial analysis, time-series processing, numerical modeling, interpolation, forecasting, remote sensing, or environmental risk analysis.
- Define objective grading criteria for scientific outputs, model behavior, data transformations, and spatial or temporal accuracy.
- Validate coordinate systems, units, timestamps, missing-data handling, and scientific assumptions.
- Create automated tests for numerical tolerances, file formats, metadata, and reproducibility.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Required skills: User Research
- Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced technical experience in Earth Sciences or a closely related field.
- Strong expertise in at least one area such as climate science, atmospheric science, geophysics, oceanography, geology, hydrology, remote sensing, environmental modeling, or Earth-system science.
- Strong programming skills in Python, R, Julia, Bash, or another scientific programming language.
- Hands-on experience with scientific data processing, numerical modeling, geospatial analysis, environmental datasets, or time-series analysis.
- Comfortable working independently in Linux/terminal-based environments.
- Ability to build, debug, and validate reproducible scientific computational workflows.
- Strong understanding of scientific quality control, spatial/temporal data, uncertainty, and numerical accuracy.
- Preferred Qualification:
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