Scientific Computing / Research Engineering Expert — Earth Sciences (Terminal Bench Science)

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About the Role

We are seeking experienced Earth Sciences experts to develop realistic, terminal-based scientific and computational tasks for a frontier AI training and evaluation initiative. In this role, you will design challenging scientific tasks involving climate science, atmospheric processes, geophysics, oceanography, geology, hydrology, remote sensing, and environmental modeling. You will build reproducible computational workflows that require AI agents to analyze scientific datasets, execute code, run simulations, troubleshoot technical issues, and generate objectively verifiable scientific outputs.

What You'll Do

• Design realistic, multi-step scientific tasks based on authentic Earth Sciences, climate, geospatial, environmental, and geophysical research workflows.
• Prepare and process scientific datasets involving climate, weather, atmospheric conditions, oceanography, geology, hydrology, satellite imagery, and environmental systems.
• Develop computational tasks involving geospatial analysis, time-series processing, numerical modeling, interpolation, forecasting, remote sensing, and environmental risk analysis.
• Build reproducible, terminal-based computational environments using scientific libraries, command-line tools, and appropriate dependencies.
• Develop expert reference solutions using Python, R, Bash, Julia, or domain-specific scientific software.
• Create automated tests and evaluation criteria to verify scientific correctness, numerical accuracy, spatial and temporal consistency, and reproducibility.
• Validate coordinate reference systems, measurement units, timestamps, missing-data handling, uncertainty, and scientific assumptions.
• Troubleshoot technical issues involving geospatial projections, large scientific datasets, software dependencies, computational performance, and numerical stability.

You're a Good Fit If You

• Required skills: Basic Programming
• Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, or equivalent advanced technical experience in Earth Sciences, Climate Science, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Oceanography, Geology, Hydrology, Environmental Science, or a closely related discipline.
• Strong programming skills in Python, R, Bash, Julia, or another relevant scientific programming language.
• Hands-on experience working in Linux and terminal-based computational environments.
• Practical expertise in at least one major area: scientific data processing, numerical modeling, geospatial analysis, climate modeling, remote sensing, or environmental data analysis.
• Strong understanding of spatial datasets, time-series analysis, scientific modeling, numerical accuracy, uncertainty, and data quality control.
• Experience working with real-world scientific datasets, including geospatial, climate, atmospheric, oceanographic, geological, or hydrological data.
• Ability to independently develop, execute, debug, and validate reproducible scientific computational workflows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify scientific inaccuracies, data inconsistencies, and computational errors.

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